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I just wish someone could find the old discussions...

The main argument I could see against empty set literals was how wrong it felt adding it to the grammar. Even adding 3 lines of code for the feature, felt like it was just creating chaos in a zen-like codebase.

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http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/2007-April/0066...

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2008-January/0...

In both of these replies, Guido is referring to older discussions. I'm curious now.

http://mail.python.org/pipermail//python-3000/2006-August/00...

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/2006-April/0014...

imagine that the "chaos" you are adding to the implementation is actually subtracted from its "interface" and consequently from all code that will be written thereon... sometimes you need to "add complexity"/"destroy order" to create more order at a higher level :)

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