Guido van Rossum wrote: >>I very much appreciate Guido putting forward a PEP on if >>expressions, but I must say the idea of letting c.l.p 'vote' on it >>is unwelcome. Voting only makes sense when an electorate is educated >>enough to properly understand the proposition and its consequences; >>the discussion so far makes clear that that isn't true. Programming >>languages need to be designed, not agglutinated. (Otherwise you get >>Perl and Fortran 2000 (:->) > > > Part of my "cunning plan" is to show that indeed this doesn't work. > I'm hoping you will forgive me this once-only Macchiavellian move. :-) > > >>I think it is fair to say that being the head designer of a language >>can lead to frustration at times; I had to endure it on a much >>smaller scale and it was very hard to keep patiently explaining how >>the features had to fit together, and how they had to be both >>parseable and implementable and learnable, and that not every little >>difficulty is worth a language feature. > > > I admit I've lost some of my patience. Showing that there is immense > resistance to if-then-else expressions (even if there is also a lot of > pressure to add them) would make it easier in the future to explain > why they aren't there. Good plan :-) Except maybe one nit: some of us here in python-dev don't read c.l.p, so their vote wouldn't get taken into account. Even though you didn't want this to be discussed here, I hope you don't mind posting my -1 here. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Software directly from the Source (#1, Feb 09 2003) >>> Python/Zope Products & Consulting ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ Python UK 2003, Oxford: 51 days left EuroPython 2003, Charleroi, Belgium: 135 days left
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