> And good riddance! The print statement harks back to ABC and even > (unvisual) Basic. Out with it!
Guido, After reviewing the PEP 3000 notes, I can find no justification there for removing "print" other than your statement here -- that it has served honorably and well in many programming languages for many years, a curious reason for abandoning it. There's a pointer to Python Regrets, but that document contains no justification for the change. (Actually, using pointers to Powerpoint slides to explain/justify anything is, er... -- what's a polite euphemism for "a sign of a weak mind"? :-) I agree that "print" is already a bit peculiar, but so what? If we wanted Scheme, we'd be programming in Scheme, not Python. The only other parts of PEP 3000 I take issue with are the removal of "reduce" (a little) and "lambda" (a bit more seriously). I use reduce a lot, but it's easy enough to cobble together oneself, given the changes in Python over the last 10 years. Bill _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
