PEP 259: Revise to remove context-driven magic from print
David LeBlanc
whisper at oz.nospamnet
Sat Jun 16 00:20:05 EDT 2001
In article <9gbess$gla$3 at newshost.accu.uu.nl>, m.faassen at vet.uu.nl
says...
> David LeBlanc <whisper at oz.nospamnet> wrote:
>
> [effbot negative response]
>
> > <rant>I don't see why you consider this a joke, nor do I see the
> > ignorance and arrogance which you seem to. I think it's kind of
> > unfortunate that an influential person in the python world, such as
> > yourself, would swat down someone's idea without even saying why! Quite a
> > way to discourage people from having new ideas whether right or wrong.
> > </rant>
>
> Well, Fredrik did quote some relevant bits from the original proposal
> that he considered arrogant.
>
> It's just the way the effbot works; a Perl regex is sometimes clogging
> up its neural net. See here for more information on the effbot:
>
> http://www.twistedmatrix.com/users/jh.twistd/python/moin.cgi/PythonRolePlayingGame
>
> No offense to anyone; some additional consideration on all sides might've
> helped, but then again everyone's inconsiderate at times, and a strong
> reply isn't always awful. I wasn't nice to Guido a few posts back,
> myself. Sorry Guido. :)
>
> Regards,
>
> Martijn
>
I am new to the ways of the effbot :-)
Thanks for being a mediating influence :-)
Regards,
Dave LeBlanc
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