On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 11:39 AM Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote:
> Now obviously "practicality beats purity" as well, but the argument "other > languages do it this way" doesn't hold well for a language that doesn't use > curly braces for scoping delineation. 😉 > I see your smiley, and I believe I've addressed this point before, but I feel I have to point out once again that Python's design *does* actually try to follow other languages in many (most) ways, lest people think there is something wrong with following other languages' example, or that they get bonus points for being different. This is not a case of "feature envy" (often seen when people propose a feature that they like in another language without understanding Python). Pattern matching fills a real need and the design is about as Pythonic as it gets. -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) *Pronouns: he/him **(why is my pronoun here?)* <http://feministing.com/2015/02/03/how-using-they-as-a-singular-pronoun-can-change-the-world/>
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