gratuitous new features in 2.0

Niels Diepeveen niels at endea.demon.nl
Mon Aug 28 11:26:47 EDT 2000


Piet van Oostrum schreef:
> 
> Globals are bad.
Taken literally, that means that most of the sys module is bad. I hope
we don't have to abolish that?

> Think about the consequences for threads and exceptions.
Threads are bad too, but that's beside the point. If I wanted to
redirect print statements at all, I would *want* to do it globally. That
may put me in a very minor minority, for all I know, but it's really the
only practical use I have for it.

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Niels Diepeveen
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