[Python-Dev] an alternative to embedding policy in PEP 418 (was: PEP 418: Add monotonic clock)

[Cameron Simpson]

On 05Apr2012 03:05, Oleg Broytman <phd at phdru.name> wrote:
| On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 12:52:00PM -0700, Ethan Furman wrote:
| > Forced?  I do not use Python to be forced to use one style of
| > programming over another.
| 
|    Then it's strange you are using Python with its strict syntax
| (case-sensitivity, forced indents), ubiquitous exceptions, limited
| syntax of lambdas and absence of code blocks (read - forced functions),
| etc.

But exceptions are NOT ubiquitous, nor should they be. They're a very
popular and often apt way to handle certain circumstances, that's all.
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