I am tempted to reply with a slightly sarcastic message involving a cookie... On July 17, 2015 6:40:21 PM CDT, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote: > >Frankly, this kind of inept discussion, where a bunch of folks get hung >up about an extremely minor design decision (who cares whether "assret" >is being special-cased or not? in the actual world, not the fantasy >world of righteous indignation and armchair architects?), is amongst >the reasons why I'm stopping contributing to CPython. > >Keep up the good work, you're making this place totally repulsive to >participate in. Every maintainer or contributor now has an army of >voluntary hair-splitters to bother about, most of whom probably aren't >relying on said functionality to begin with. > >Regards > >Antoine. > > > >On Fri, 17 Jul 2015 15:11:59 -0700 >Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote: >> On 07/16/2015 11:30 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: >> > On 17 July 2015 at 08:30, Ben Finney wrote: >> >> >> By definition, advocating to not add cruft to an API is going to >be in >> >> advance of being bitten by those additions. >> > >> > That's not what people are doing. Folks are actually arguing for >> > *restoring* the ability to mock out method names starting with >> > "assret_*". >> >> Why is that surprising? As somebody already mentioned (Terry, I >think?) "assret" is a fine abbreviation, as well as possibly being a >foreign word. >> >> > I still don't know why anyone thinks restoring that would be a >> > worthwhile use of a maintainers' time (or why they thinking arguing >in >> > favour of such a capability is a worthwhile use of theirs). >> >> 1) Because it shouldn't have been added in the first place. >> >> 2) Because DWIM does not belong in Python. >> >> > None of the perspectives presented in this thread are new, although >> > the apparent obsession over such a minor detail has made it >abundantly >> > clear that this kind of helper simply isn't worth the distraction >it >> > creates for maintainers, *regardless* of whether or not it helps >end >> > users. >> >> To be clear: >> >> - those who are upset over "assret" are not upset over "assert" >> >> - it is not Python's job (nor the stdlib's) to correct spelling >errors >> >> -- >> ~Ethan~ > > > >_______________________________________________ >Python-Dev mailing list >Python-Dev at python.org >https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev >Unsubscribe: >https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/rymg19%40gmail.com -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20150717/6e944564/attachment.html>
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