Re: The First Law Of comp.lang.python Dynamics

2009-01-24 Thread Hendrik van Rooyen
Martin P. Hellwig martin.hell...@dcuktec.org wrote: Or you can argue that even when an argument is repeated indefinitely it doesn't make it suddenly right. This is no good. It's a well known fact that anything I tell you three times is true. To demonstrate: Tim Rowe's post earlier in this

Re: The First Law Of comp.lang.python Dynamics

2009-01-23 Thread Kay Schluehr
On 23 Jan., 08:13, Philip Semanchuk phi...@semanchuk.com wrote: On Jan 23, 2009, at 12:39 AM, Kay Schluehr wrote: Whatever sufficiently sophisticated topic was initially discussed it ends all up in a request for removing reference counting and the GIL. Is this a variant of Godwin's Law

Re: The First Law Of comp.lang.python Dynamics

2009-01-23 Thread Tim Rowe
2009/1/23 Kay Schluehr kay.schlu...@gmx.net: Whatever sufficiently sophisticated topic was the initially discussed it ends all up in a request for removing reference counting and the GIL. Well, maybe, but it seems to me that the real issue here is that we need to remove reference counting and

Re: The First Law Of comp.lang.python Dynamics

2009-01-23 Thread Benjamin Kaplan
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 9:50 AM, Tim Rowe digi...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/1/23 Kay Schluehr kay.schlu...@gmx.net: Whatever sufficiently sophisticated topic was the initially discussed it ends all up in a request for removing reference counting and the GIL. Well, maybe, but it seems to me

Re: The First Law Of comp.lang.python Dynamics

2009-01-23 Thread J. Cliff Dyer
I dub it Schluehr's law. On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 21:39 -0800, Kay Schluehr wrote: Whatever sufficiently sophisticated topic was the initially discussed it ends all up in a request for removing reference counting and the GIL. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list --

Re: The First Law Of comp.lang.python Dynamics

2009-01-23 Thread Tim Rowe
2009/1/23 Benjamin Kaplan benjamin.kap...@case.edu: BTW, he said sufficiently sophisticated topic. Since there hasn't been an extremely long post here yet, I don't know if this counts. Had I waited until the thread became long enough, somebody else would have already raised the issue -- you

Re: The First Law Of comp.lang.python Dynamics

2009-01-23 Thread Martin P. Hellwig
Tim Rowe wrote: 2009/1/23 Kay Schluehr kay.schlu...@gmx.net: Whatever sufficiently sophisticated topic was the initially discussed it ends all up in a request for removing reference counting and the GIL. Well, maybe, but it seems to me that the real issue here is that we need to remove

Re: The First Law Of comp.lang.python Dynamics

2009-01-23 Thread Terry Reedy
Tim Rowe wrote: 2009/1/23 Kay Schluehr kay.schlu...@gmx.net: Whatever sufficiently sophisticated topic was the initially discussed it ends all up in a request for removing reference counting and the GIL. Well, maybe, but it seems to me that the real issue here is that we need to remove

Re: The First Law Of comp.lang.python Dynamics

2009-01-23 Thread Tim Rowe
2009/1/23 Martin P. Hellwig martin.hell...@dcuktec.org: Or you can argue that even when an argument is repeated indefinitely it doesn't make it suddenly right. No, but it makes for a confirmation of Schluehr's law :-) -- Tim Rowe -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

The First Law Of comp.lang.python Dynamics

2009-01-22 Thread Kay Schluehr
Whatever sufficiently sophisticated topic was the initially discussed it ends all up in a request for removing reference counting and the GIL. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: The First Law Of comp.lang.python Dynamics

2009-01-22 Thread Chris Rebert
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 9:39 PM, Kay Schluehr kay.schlu...@gmx.net wrote: Whatever sufficiently sophisticated topic was the initially discussed it ends all up in a request for removing reference counting and the GIL. +1 QOTW - Chris -- Follow the path of the Iguana... http://rebertia.com --

Re: The First Law Of comp.lang.python Dynamics

2009-01-22 Thread Philip Semanchuk
On Jan 23, 2009, at 12:39 AM, Kay Schluehr wrote: Whatever sufficiently sophisticated topic was the initially discussed it ends all up in a request for removing reference counting and the GIL. Is this a variant of Godwin's Law for Python? --