Re: [Python-ideas] How to respond to trolling (Guido van Rossum)

2017-01-13 Thread Sven R. Kunze
Moreover, when I read "explicit self" is a wart, then I think, "you have absolutely no idea how fantastic 'explicit self' is". Thus, inferring from a single data-point these seems to be personal "dislike lists". In this regard, I tend to prefer Guido's one before any others if there is even

Re: [Python-ideas] How to respond to trolling (Guido van Rossum)

2017-01-12 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Guido van Rossum writes: > AFAIK the term comes from a piece by Andrew Kuchling titled "Python warts". > The topic now has its own wiki page: > https://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonWarts > > I believe that most of the warts are not even design missteps -- they are > emergent misfeatures,

Re: [Python-ideas] How to respond to trolling (Guido van Rossum)

2017-01-12 Thread Guido van Rossum
AFAIK the term comes from a piece by Andrew Kuchling titled "Python warts". The topic now has its own wiki page: https://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonWarts I believe that most of the warts are not even design missteps -- they are emergent misfeatures, meaning nobody could have predicted how things

Re: [Python-ideas] How to respond to trolling (Guido van Rossum)

2017-01-12 Thread Ethan Furman
On 01/12/2017 03:21 PM, Random832 wrote: Just out of curiosity... in your estimation, what is a "wart", and why is the term "wart" used for it? I mean, this is an accepted term that the Python community uses to refer to things [...] I do not see any difference between calling something a

[Python-ideas] How to respond to trolling (Guido van Rossum)

2017-01-11 Thread Simon Lovell
I feel I have to respond to this one. More than half of what I suggested could have and should be implemented. In particular the truthiness of non-boolean data and the lack of a reasonable SQL syntax. Several other points have been discussed endlessly on the internet but without a