On Friday 21 June 2002 03:56 pm, Guido van Rossum wrote: ... > You say that the use base is biased against featuritis. Yet the user > base is the largest source of new feature requests and proposals. How > do you reconcile these? I hypothesized that, because of self-selection effects, Python's user based (particularly on Python-Dev and in Python-only firms) is biased against featurities _when compared_ to the general population, which (I opine) includes a wider proportion of people who don't particularly mind a language having many redundant features. There is obviously nothing that needs to be "reconciled" between this hypothesized sample-bias and the observation that requests for features come more from the user base than from (who else would you expect them to come FROM -- people who've never HEARD about Python...?-). So, you're either joking or subject to a common and quite understandable "statistical fallacy". Never forget Bayes's Theorem...!-) > You yourself pleaded for PEP 246 just an hour > ago. Surely that's a big honking new feature! I prefer to think of it as a framework that lets most type-casts, type-tests, special purpose type-conversion methods, and the like, be avoided WITHOUT adding a zillion little ad-hoc features. But of course you could choose to view it differently:-). Alex
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