Michael Chermside wrote: > The F-bot writes: > >>in reality, some things are carefully thought out and craftily im- >>plemented, some things are engineering tradeoffs made at a certain time, >>and some things are just accidents -- but python-dev will happily defend >>the current solution with the same energy, no matter what it is. > > > +1 QOTF. > > Seriously... I've seen this behavior also, but I haven't ever thought > about it as clearly as Fredrik does here. When we go to answer questions > we ought to pause briefly first and decide which of these categories > applies to a given piece of behavior. I think users will be understanding > if we're honest about what are the accidents -- every language or > software package has some, and just because it's an accident does NOT > mean we should "fix" it. >
it's indeed a matter of trade-offs. Converting NameErrors into commands doesn't look like a good trade off in terms of expectations management and understandable behavior. Ka-Ping Yee ExitHatch still seem a reasonable improvement. Fernando Perez considerations about Python vs. "commands" and prefixing and extra-linguistic extensions seem also on spot. It's not a matter of defending the status quo, more about what kind of price is reasonable for DWIM. _______________________________________________ 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
