On 25 Nov 2013 08:28, "Greg Ewing" <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
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> Guido van Rossum wrote:
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>> Haven't followed all of this, but perhaps the simplest thing would be to define a new builtin function that returns True in the namespace of the main module and false everywhere else.
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> Can someone remind me why there's so much resistance to
> simply blessing a __main__() function? It would be
> straightforward and intuitive and in line with what
> just about every other language does.

See my other email. Implementing it is not straightforward at all, and it's only intuitive to people that have been trained to think that way by C, Java, et al.

Cheers,
Nick.

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