I'm not implying anything about Winter (whom I actually respect) except that I don't see the merit of his proposal, and that I don't see the value of more argument on such a small issue.
And why are you hiding behind an alias? --Guido On 5/9/06, joe user <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does this mean you have no more actual technical reasons to oppose this > change, but are just stomping your foot and implying bad things about > Winter? Because there are people who agree with him, and I haven't seen any > really compelling reasons to avoid this ten-line modification. > > Seriously, are you just dodging this issue? > > >Can we just agree to disagree? Read the piece on python.org/dev about > >knowing when to stop. > > > >On 5/8/06, Collin Winter <collinw at gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 5/7/06, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote: > >> > On 5/7/06, Collin Winter <collinw at gmail.com> wrote: > >> > > This -- more intuitive error messages -- is really what I'm after, > and > >> > > while you may think of type of "def foo(a, b, c):..." as "a function > >> > > with three required arguments", I'd wager that most Python > >> > > programmers, if asked what type foo has, would say simply, "it's a > >> > > function". > >> > > >> > Then introducing a new exception isn't going to make a difference. > >> > >> Sure it will: the name of the exception class is effectively part of > >> the error message once the exception instance bubbles up to the user. > >> "TypeError: foo() got an unexpected keyword argument 'bar'". > >> > >> Collin Winter > >> > > > > > >-- > >--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) > > > ________________________________ > Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Make PC-to-Phone Calls to the US (and 30+ > countries) for 2ยข/min or less. > > > _______________________________________________ > Python-3000 mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/guido%40python.org > > > -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
