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UncleEntity on Jan 9, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Copying data is wasteful, mutating data is dangero...

The pythonic way would be to have sort() and sorted() which either sort in place or return a sorted copy. Best of both worlds.

ajuc on Jan 10, 2020 [–]

Command Query Separation is a very good general idea in programming that should be followed more often. Sadly it went out of fashion in 90s when everybody got hyped about OOP.

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