Arthur wrote: >a) One of design features of the programming language named after a >comedy troup, not a reptile, that it seems to me is of fundamental >significance to tis success is its willingness to be outward facing, not >inward - its willingness to leverage the use of generally accepted and >commonly used idioms, not be overly clever, i.e be a public language, >not a private language. > > FWIW, I also happen to think that the passion around the @decorator debate centered around this issue - many people feeling that the facility had the potential of redirecting Python inward. I still cringe a bit when contemplating lots of @'s in the standard library of Python3000.
And FWIW, it seems that it seeems to me that sys.stdin.readline() is more public facing than is raw_input(), and I think my gut preference for it is on that basis. All said at the risk of having my own private conversation. Art _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
