[Python-3000] Special methods and interface-based type system

[Aahz]

On Wed, Nov 22, 2006, Talin wrote:
>
> While I wouldn't say it quite so strongly, I do think that there is a 
> great deal of subjectivity in HCI discussions. One person's 'intuitive' 
> may be another person's 'orange smoke', as we've seen in the current 
> discussion.

But the whole point of making Guido BDFL was to codify his intuition WRT
language decisions.  There's a reason why we here are using Python
instead of other languages, and as Guido himself has noted, often he
knows what the right decisions is without being able to explain it.
-- 
Aahz (aahz at pythoncraft.com)           <*>         http://www.pythoncraft.com/

"In many ways, it's a dull language, borrowing solid old concepts from
many other languages & styles:  boring syntax, unsurprising semantics,
few automatic coercions, etc etc.  But that's one of the things I like
about it."  --Tim Peters on Python, 16 Sep 1993