"Guido van Rossum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 7:42 PM, Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The result I'm trying to avoid by this is that of having the > > externally visible behaviour of functions drift from the promise > > made by their names. Either rename the function, or create a new > > one for the new functionality. > > Oh get over it. This is getting ridiculous.
Indeed. > Where did you *get* these design "principles" you are so fond of? The Zen of Python. > Read the zen of Python and come back after you've memorized it. The wonderful thing about the Zen of Python is that I can find support in it for *all* the contradictory views expresed in these threads. The Zen needs interpretation by mortals with human judgement in order to apply its principles. -- \ "Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are | `\ fools, and those who dare not, are slaves." —“Lord” George | _o__) Gordon Noel Byron | Ben Finney _______________________________________________ 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
