Donald Stufft wrote:
Even if a MemoryException is raised I believe that is still a
fundamental change in the documented contract of dictionary API. I don't
believe there is a way to fix this without breaking someones
application. The major differences I see between the two solutions is
that counting will break people's applications who are otherwise
following the documented api contract of dictionaries, and randomization
will break people's applications who are violating the documented api
contract of dictionaries.
Personally I feel that the lesser of two evils is to reward those who
followed the documentation, and not reward those who didn't.
So +1 for Randomization as the only option in 3.3, and off by default
with a flag or environment variable in bug fixes. I think it's the only
way to proceed that won't hurt people who have followed the documented
behavior.
+1
~Ethan~
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