On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 8:37 AM, Steven D'Aprano <[email protected]> wrote: > On 28/09/12 22:15, Mark Lawrence wrote: > >> The Python round function is itself problematic. The idea of deprecating >> it is currently being discussed on Python ideas. This quote from Calvin >> Spealman is typical "Also, I'd be completely in support of dropping >> round() >> and agree it gets misused and leads to too much confusion. We should >> promote the right ways, and sometimes to show the right path you need to >> lock another door and throw away the key.". > > > Isn't that the same Calvin Spealman who wrote the blog post spreading FUD > that > Python was at risk of dying because, well, frankly because he was utterly > ignorant of just how much Python code is written in the places where he > thought no Python was written? > > I'm not impressed. He sprouts off about how you can't use Python on mobile > devices, when you can. What makes you think his opinions on breaking > working code just because he thinks he knows the "right ways" are any less > ignorant?
I don't think the newbie mailing list is the right place to show that kind of hostility, if indeed there is a right place. -- Devin _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
