On Jun 27, 2006, at 11:49 AM, Jesus Cea wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Patrick K. O'Brien wrote: >> Are they indeed equivalent? One refers to 'n.minimum_degree', the >> other >> to 'self.minimum_degree'. Is it possible for those to be different? > > Arg!, you are right, Patrick. Since current BTree implementation keeps > all internal nodes of the same class, > "self.minimum_degree==n.minimum_degree", but this is a casual > implementation artifact. > > Better to refactor that code, cleanly. It looks like the first one is not used at all. Unless someone can find a reason for it to be there, I'll delete it.