Huh?! Was this to the right place?
It doesn't seem to be related to the previous posts in the thread?
Confused....
Alan G.
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On 11/27/2009 10:43 AM, The Music Guy wrote:
> Next thing is, I can't see logically how the path of the discussion of
> the proposal lead to the proposal being rejected. It looked like a lot
> of people really liked the idea--including Guido himself--and several
> examples were given about how it could be useful. The final verdict on
> the matter just doesn't make logical sense in the context of the
> discussions.
Guido withdraws his support for the proposal due to many people
declaiming that setattr, getattr, and hasattr are too rarely used to
justify a new syntax (especially since nobody can agree to a syntax that
looks pythonic). Many other followed Guido's lead to formally turn their
"not vote"'s, +0s, and +1s to -1s for the reason.
"""
Guido wrote:
> This seems to be the overwhelming feedback at this point, so I'm
> withdrawing my support for the proposal. I hope that Ben can write up
> a PEP and mark it rejected, to summarize the discussion; it's been a
> useful lesson. Occasinoally, negative results are worth publishing!
>
> On 2/13/07, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
>> On Feb 13, 2007, at 7:24 PM, Greg Ewing wrote:
>> > I'm still -1 on the basic idea, though, on the grounds of
>> > YAGNIOE (You Aren't Going to Need It Often Enough).
>>
>> I can't really add much more than what's already be stated, but I
>> echo Greg's sentiment.
"""
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