Bill Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > And good riddance! The print statement harks back to ABC and even > > (unvisual) Basic. Out with it!
I'm with Guido on this, BTW. > After reviewing the PEP 3000 notes, I can find no justification there > for removing "print" Well, how about the fact that basically all of Python's statements are for implementing logic (if, while, etc), controlling flow (return, yield, try, etc), and defining structure (def, class, etc). `print` stands pretty much alone as a statement which does none of these things -- in fact, it does nothing for the program but merely has the interesting side-effect of writing to stdout. It's an anomaly. It stands out in the language as a sore thumb waiting for Guido's hammer. Charles -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles Cazabon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPL'ed software available at: http://pyropus.ca/software/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ 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
