April 3, 2002
3:59 p.m.
So what's different?
Fredrik> more than one way to do it. more than one concept to Fredrik> explain to newcomers. more than one "obviously correct" Fredrik> way to do things. less is more. etc. I'm a little confused, because it seems to me that Python already has more than one way to do this particular thing. Specifically: If I want to write a function that answers a yes/no question, I have lots of possible ways of spelling yes (1, 2, "yes", and so on) and lots of possible ways of spelling no (0, {}, None, and so on). There isn't a single preferred way. -- Andrew Koenig, ark@research.att.com, http://www.research.att.com/info/ark