June 16, 2009
7:14 p.m.
Aahz writes:
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009, Ben Finney wrote:
Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> writes:
-100.
(Hey! I though the valid range of votes was -1 through +1, I didn't know we were giving the BDFL more than one vote! :-)
Guido can vote; he can also Pronounce. -100 is a shorthand idiom for "veto".
Erm, shorthand? But len("-100") == len("veto")? <wink> I actually read that differently (though I don't pretend to be capable of channeling anybody). When I see a "-100" from Guido (and to nearly the same extent, from any 'bot---do bots express emotion this way?--- or the FLUFL), I make a note that "this kind of proposal is not merely unacceptable, it's in bad taste." Then I try to figure out why....