Re: [Python-Dev] lambda in Python

2006-05-05 Thread Benji York
Ian D. Bollinger wrote: > I'm not sure Xah is so much a troll as he is completely out of his > mind. Is that Bollinger's law? Any sufficiently advanced insanity is indistinguishable from trolling. -- Benji York ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-D

Re: [Python-Dev] lambda in Python

2006-05-05 Thread Ian D. Bollinger
Delaney, Timothy (Tim) wrote: > Should we add an explicit rule to the Python-dev spam filter for Xah? > Based on his past history, I doubt we'll ever see anything useful from > him. > I'm not sure Xah is so much a troll as he is completely out of his mind. At any rate, it seems he never has an

Re: [Python-Dev] lambda in Python

2006-05-04 Thread Delaney, Timothy (Tim)
Guido van Rossum wrote: > Reminder: the best way to get rid of a troll is to ignore him. Indeed. Xah got past Spambayes for me because this time he posted on Python-dev - I doubt that he'll get past Spambayes again by doing that :) Should we add an explicit rule to the Python-dev spam filter for

Re: [Python-Dev] lambda in Python

2006-05-04 Thread Guido van Rossum
Reminder: the best way to get rid of a troll is to ignore him. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail

Re: [Python-Dev] lambda in Python

2006-05-04 Thread Zachery Bir
On May 4, 2006, at 11:31 AM, Georg Brandl wrote: > Obviously, we all like Python the way it is and people who disagree > (especially those who accuse the BDFL of being ignorant) don't belong > here. If that were really the case, there wouldn't be much point to having a Python-Dev list, now woul

Re: [Python-Dev] lambda in Python

2006-05-04 Thread Georg Brandl
xahlee wrote: > I do not wish to be the subject of mobbing here. > > If you have opinions on what i wrote, respond to the subject on topic > as with any discussion. Please do not start a gazillion war-cry on me. > > If you cannot tolerate the way i express my opinions, at this moment > write

Re: [Python-Dev] lambda in Python

2006-05-04 Thread xahlee
I do not wish to be the subject of mobbing here. If you have opinions on what i wrote, respond to the subject on topic as with any discussion. Please do not start a gazillion war-cry on me. If you cannot tolerate the way i express my opinions, at this moment write a polite request to me and c

Re: [Python-Dev] lambda in Python

2006-05-04 Thread Jay Parlar
On May 4, 2006, at 6:00 AM, Talin wrote: > xahlee xahlee.org> writes: > >> Today i ran into one of Guido van Rossum's blog article titled >> ?Language Design Is Not Just Solving Puzzles? at >> http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=147358 > > The confrontational tone of this post make

Re: [Python-Dev] lambda in Python

2006-05-03 Thread Talin
xahlee xahlee.org> writes: > Today i ran into one of Guido van Rossum's blog article titled > “Language Design Is Not Just Solving Puzzles” at > http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=147358 The confrontational tone of this post makes it pretty much impossible to have a reasonable d

Re: [Python-Dev] lambda in Python

2006-05-03 Thread Anthony Baxter
This is utterly irrelevant for python-dev. Please take it elsewhere. Thanks, Anthony ___ 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/arch

[Python-Dev] lambda in Python

2006-05-03 Thread xahlee
Today i ran into one of Guido van Rossum's blog article titled “Language Design Is Not Just Solving Puzzles” at http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=147358 The article reads very kooky. The bottom line is that Guido simply does not like the solution proposed for fixing the lambda