-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mar 14, 2007, at 8:33 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> While I would agree in an ideal world, I find Thomas's argument > compelling. Not all newbie Python users are first-time computer users; > if they have C/C++ or other Unixoid languages under their belt (even > Java has leading-zero-as-octal!) they might type 0600 and never notice > it returns the wrong value until it's too late. Swapping the confusion > of one group for the confusion of another group is not quite worth it. I agree completely. - -Barry -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) iQCVAwUBRfklznEjvBPtnXfVAQLF2AQAjkuZRnma4EVziqqWimzNznJCNGytI20J KMSz+VCxv3JON8sFZbTS2kO+G8TjG/sF7ecD/tv91dyht92qgnC4Ywy1kUGNTfY7 sG8qCksB7rSpfoVNX6iWNOnFJQ0ymlxt2dNecMCNxGp2lYkXX/N3JySrabh+JTCD M4hjDX4DN8Y= =UgZe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
