Fredrik Lundh wrote:
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frankly, this "design by committee" (or is it "design by people who've never even been close to implementing something because they thought it was too hard, and thus think they're qualified to argue against those of us who didn't even realize that it was a hard problem"?)
Huh ? Two points: 1. How can you be sure that people haven't tried implementing their ideas and for various reasons have come to some conclusion about those ideas ? 2. Would you seriously disqualify people from joining a discussion by the simple arguement that they have not implemented anything yet ? Just take the Unicode discussion as example: it was very lively and resulted in a decent proposal which is now subject to further investigation by the implementors ;-) Many people have joined in even though they did not and/or will not implement anything. Still, their arguments were very useful to show up weaknesses in the proposal. Now, let's rather have a beer in the pub around the corner than go on ranting about :-). -- Marc-Andre Lemburg ______________________________________________________________________ Y2000: 27 days left Business: http://www.lemburg.com/ Python Pages: http://www.lemburg.com/python/