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From: Nicolas =?utf-8?Q?=C3=89vrard?= <nicoe@altern.org>
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Subject: Which type should be used when testing static structure appartenance
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 11:27:39 -0300
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Hello,

I saw the following retweet by Raymond Hettinger in this morning:

    https://twitter.com/sanityinc/status/666485814214287360

    Programming tip: many of those arrays and hashes in your code
    should actually be sets. Match data structures to data
    constraints!

I saw just in time because in a review I wrote something like this:

    if operator not in ('where', 'not where')

and my colleague proposed that I should use a list instead of a tuple.
But reading the mentioned tweet I tend to think that a set would be a
better choice.

What are your opinion on this issue (I realize it's not something of
the utmost importance but rather a "philosophical" question).

-- 
Nicolas Évrard - B2CK SPRL
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