On 11/15/06, Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > George Sakkis wrote: > > The ending sentences though are more convincing: "...but it's a part > > of Python, and it's too late to make such fundamental changes now. > > The functions have to remain to avoid massive code breakage". That > > I can buy (at least for 2.x). > > yeah, it's clear that most of your argumentation is based on a rather > common "I haven't thought this through very deeply, but I'm sure I'm > smarter than those guys so that won't stop me" approach. trust me, the > design of Python is a *lot* more carefully put together than you appear > to think.
Yikes. Fredrik, if you can't say something nice, please just drop the conversation. (Actually, even if you *can* say something nice, this conversation might be worth dropping. Just a thought.) -j _______________________________________________ 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
