On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 05:30:13PM -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote:
I would also like to remind various other posters that sarcasm is *not* a good way to welcome newbies. The name of the list is python-ideas, not python-ideas-to-shoot-down-sarcastically.
Guido, it isn't fair of you to jump into this thread and start scolding us for being sarcastic. Jelle's accusation that we "mostly" replied to Jerimiah with sarcasm was inaccurate. The regulars here (especially Chris) spent a lot of time and effort trying to get Jerimiah to understand the need to justify the association between ord(), or some other arbitrary function, with the unary plus operator (or any other arbitrary operator). It is not nice to dismiss that effort as sarcastically shooting the idea down. -- Steve