On Sunday 03 June 2007 12:58, Ed Leafe wrote: > On Jun 3, 2007, at 12:16 PM, Carl Karsten wrote: > > I think they do cause harm: confusion. I didn't even know the font > > object > > existed because I saw the "magic" first. using the magic will > > really hurt when > > it is time to migrate code to 2.0, which won't hurt if the font > > object is used. > > You misread what Paul wrote. He said we won't even *consider* this > until then. There is no decision on this, and when the time comes > that this is ever debated, I will be squarely on the side of not > changing it. > > Second, this isn't "magic", and your use of the term biases the > discussion. One of the things we are especially proud of in Dabo is > how we wrap a lot of the underlying complexity and enable you to > write code that is simple and direct. A large part of my Pycon 2007 > presentation was about this very fact. That is never going to change > as long as I'm part of Dabo. > > -- Ed Leafe > -- http://leafe.com > -- http://dabodev.com +1 Don't change it. -- John Fabiani
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