After nine months, no support has grown beyond the original poster. The
PEP did however generate some negative responses when brought-up on
comp.lang.python (it made some people's stomach churn).
The PEP fails the tests of obviousness and necessity. The PEP's switch
example is easily handled by
[Raymond Hettinger]
After nine months, no support has grown beyond the original poster.
Never will, either -- even Roman numeral literals are more Pythonic
than this one.
More Pythonic: make integers callable: i(arglist) returns the i'th
argument. So, e.g., people who find it inconvenient to
