Perl is worse!

[Erik Max Francis]

Steve Lamb wrote:

>     Pardon my french but... no shit sherlock.  That has been my point
> all the
> long.  I feel that such a thing, as is somewhat evident in Perl, is
> not the
> bad thing that some people in Python make it out to be.

The point is that what is good for Perl is _not_ good for Python.  It
would be a bad idea to implement such a thing for Python, which is what
you seem to be advocating.

> I never once
> claimed
> that Python did it.

I know that, but you're suggesting that you think Python should do this.
And if you aren't, what are you posting about this in comp.lang.python
for?

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