Re: How much sanity checking is required for function inputs?

From	Michael Selik <michael.selik@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Re: How much sanity checking is required for function inputs?
Date	2016-04-25 01:02 +0000
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On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 2:08 PM Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> wrote:

> On Sun, 24 Apr 2016 04:40 pm, Michael Selik wrote:
> > I think we're giving mixed messages because we're conflating
> "constants" and globals that are expected to change.
>
> When you talk about "state", that usually means "the current state of the
> program", not constants. math.pi is not "state".
>

Perhaps I was unclear. You provided an example of what I was trying to
point out.

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Re: How much sanity checking is required for function inputs? Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2016-04-23 20:34 -0600
  Re: How much sanity checking is required for function inputs? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-04-24 15:49 +1000
    Re: How much sanity checking is required for function inputs? Michael Selik <michael.selik@gmail.com> - 2016-04-24 06:40 +0000
      Re: How much sanity checking is required for function inputs? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-04-25 04:00 +1000
        Re: How much sanity checking is required for function inputs? Michael Selik <michael.selik@gmail.com> - 2016-04-25 01:02 +0000

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