On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 9:24 PM, Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 7:02 AM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Much easier to simply say no. > > It's also easier to cease developing Python at all. > > By which I mean: just because something is hard doesn't mean it > shouldn't be done. Lots of things Python does are hard, but they make > users' lives easier. The question should probably be where developer > effort is best spent, not where developers spend the least effort.
Of course, of course. Easier doesn't necessarily mean better. But there's a much larger cost to this kind of backward compatibility than many people realize. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
