14 Dec
2010
14 Dec
'10
5:06 p.m.
On 14/12/2010 17:01, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
On Dec 14, 2010, at 3:38 AM, Fred Drake wrote:
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 6:24 AM, Steven D'Aprano
wrote: The good thing about that idea is that maintenance of buggy.py will be so simple!
It's self-describing, and needs no further documentation. :-)
And psychologically more effective than deprecation. Anyone writing "import buggy" probably feels like they have got some explaining to do :-)
They might be intro retro-robotics: http://www.anf.nildram.co.uk/beebcontrol/buggies/bbc_buggy/index.html (For those not in the UK, this was a very popular schools project kit on the back of the famous BBC micro initiative) TJG