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Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 08:54:07 +1000
Subject: Re: Newbie: question regarding references and class relationships
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 8:39 AM, Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> On 2013-06-10, Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> wrote:
>
>> Another principle similar to 'Don't add extraneous code' is 'Don't
>> rebind builtins'.
>
> OK, we've all done it by accident (especially when starting out), but
> are there people that rebind builtins intentionally?

There are times when you don't care what you shadow, like using id for
a database ID.

ChrisA