[Python-Dev] Re: Re: Ye don't be needin' these!

[Florian Schulze]

On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 13:59:29 -0500, Tim Lesher <tlesher at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 11:34:09 -0500, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
>>
>> "Herman Toothrot" <hermantootrot at hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:BAY23-F5C463CC802BE7A7513435BB4F0 at phx.gbl...
>> > Avast!  Why be there builtins divmod and pow, when operators **, /, 
>> and %
>> > should be good enough for ya?  It runs counter to TOOWTDI, I be 
>> thinking.
>>
>> Questions like this should be asked on comp.lang.python or the python
>> mailing list.  I'll answer if I see it there.
>
> I have to wonder if this wasn't a tongue-in-cheek message sent from a
> just-created hotmail account, by an existing python-dev participant
> who's embroiled in the current "do we even need functionals anymore"
> discussion...
>

BTW, Herman Toothrot is from Monkey Island.

Regards,
Florian Schulze