On 1/31/2023 4:24 AM, mutt...@dastardlyhq.com wrote:
On Tue, 31 Jan 2023 12:57:33 +1300
Greg Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
On 30/01/23 10:41 pm, mutt...@dastardlyhq.com wrote:
What was the point of the upheaval of converting
the print command in python 2 into a function in python 3 if as a function
print() doesn't return anything useful?
It was made a function because there's no good reason for it
to have special syntax in the language.
All languages have their ugly corners due to initial design mistakes and/or
constraints. Eg: java with the special behaviour of its string class, C++
with "=0" pure virtual declaration. But they don't dump them and make all old
code suddenly cease to execute.
Pragmatism should always come before language purity.
It was more fundamental than that, and not mainly about print():
https://snarky.ca/why-python-3-exists/
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