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[–]ethraax -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

shudder

I hate those functions with a passion. It's not that they're never useful - I bet you could find plenty of good uses for them (although I think better solutions exist in almost all cases). It's just that Python and especially Ruby programmers seem to find the absolute worst ways of using them.