[Python-Dev] Readability vs. Understanding

[Aahz]

On Wed, Feb 05, 2003, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>
> Now, we're lucky since meta-classes or writing importers is not
> all that easy. With thunks the situation will be much like giving
> macros to Python programmers: you'll see a proliferation of new
> meta-constructs in all kinds of programs and in the end lose the
> maintainability argument which is still one of the strongest ones for
> using Python in the first place.

That's true only if we permit generalized thunks.  I've been pushing for
simplified thunks; nevertheless "thunk" is a useful term for the
discussions we're having.
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