Oct. 25, 2000
6:30 p.m.
Peter Funk wrote:
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Bruce Sherwood and David Scherer suggested a IMHO very clever solution to this particular problem in March/April this year. This thread was first posted to idle-dev and afterwards X-posted to python-dev:
http://www.python.org/pipermail/idle-dev/2000-April/000138.html http://www.python.org/pipermail/idle-dev/2000-April/000140.html http://www.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2000-April/010029.html
Tim's last message on it doesn't sound overwhelmingly positiive to me! Also, don't forget that Python is also a command line so "version pragmas" cause additional complexity there. -- Paul Prescod Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it. - http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html