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Sadly the core team decided to not learn from that mistake, and did the exact same thing with the dict merge operator.
by masklinn 4y ago
Sadly the core team decided to not learn from that mistake, and did the exact same thing with the dict merge operator.
- omaranto 4y agoBryce Adelstein Lelbach, the ISO C++ Library evolution chair, says that he would rather be consistently wrong than inconsistently right. Maybe that's what the Python core team thought, "we'd better make this consistent with +=, whose quirks people already know".
- masklinn 4y agoThat strikes me as a turbocharged version of the sunk cost fallacy.