[Python-Dev] Re: PEP-317

[Guido van Rossum]

> > I've now read the PEP, and it simply fails to explain why implicit
> > instantiation sucks so badly as to require all this pain.  The
> > arguments of readability and consistency are pretty mild suckage IMO.
> 
> My next question, then, is whether those arguments are strong
> enough to justify, for example, recommending against implicit
> instantiation in PEP 8, or changing the Tutorial's examples.

I think not.  This is something that each project may decide for
itself.  But I'm at most -0 on this.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)