On Sun, 19 Feb 2006, Alan Gauld wrote: > But don't even joke about it.
It is pretty cringe-worthy, isn't it? > Decorators are bad enough, no more line noise in Python. I was actually kind of sad to see that added. It struck me as the first grafted-on feature of Python that *felt* grafted-on. Fortunately, I'm not at the level of programming that I'm ever likely to run into it, so I can safely ignore it. Another one like this: the Generics feature of Java 5. Not that I care much for Java, anyway,[1] but yech. > If we want weird characters in our code we can just learn Perl! > I assume this was intended irony Terry?.... Absolutely. I'm a Perl refugee. [1] Every couple of years, I decide to learn Java, and start going through a book -- usually the same book. It doesn't go long before I say to my self, "Gosh, why would I ever want to program this language, anyway?" _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
