Python and crypto-strength random numbers by default

Posted Sep 19, 2015 5:54 UTC (Sat) by reubenhwk (guest, #75803)
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Python and crypto-strength random numbers by default

Posted Sep 24, 2015 14:29 UTC (Thu) by dag- (guest, #30207) [Link] (2 responses)

Do you also wonder why one cannot remove a comment (e.g. if there was no reply to it) ?

Yours is an excellent use-case :-)

Python and crypto-strength random numbers by default

Posted Oct 2, 2015 8:07 UTC (Fri) by marcH (subscriber, #57642) [Link] (1 responses)

Because of dangling replies.

Immutability, good. Side-effects, bad.

Python and crypto-strength random numbers by default

Posted Oct 2, 2015 14:47 UTC (Fri) by nybble41 (subscriber, #55106) [Link]

>> Do you also wonder why one cannot remove a comment (e.g. if there was no reply to it) ?

> Because of dangling replies.

Well, dag- did say "if there was no reply to it", which would address the problem of dangling replies.

Even without that restriction, a simple "this comment has been retracted by the author" placeholder message with a link to the original text would seem to me to be a reasonable compromise.