Copy operator (was list.remove for Noivces)

Delaney, Timothy tdelaney at avaya.com
Thu Nov 29 17:52:48 EST 2001


> From: Jeff Shannon [mailto:jeff at ccvcorp.com]
> "Delaney, Timothy" wrote:
> 
> > > From: Arthur Siegel [mailto:ajs at ix.netcom.com]
> > > Jeff Shannon wrote:
> > >
> > > But if  I could find some way to demonstrate (not  saying that I
> > > necessarily could find a way to do so convincingly) that it would
> > > indeed make Python better equipped for beginners/learners -
> > > is there a shot it would find acceptance by the community?
> >
> > Probably not, since the only thing it would be doing would 
> be introducing
> > syntactic sugar for something which Python already has.   .....
> 
> Just as a minor point, the quoted section above was written 
> by Art Siegel, not
> by me.  I don't think any confusion has resulted, and I'm not 
> really worried
> about being misattributed, just wanted to clarify this for 
> the record.  :)

It's not misattributed! Look at the indentation! What it says is that Art
says that Jeff wrote nothing, and then Art said something else.

It's just that I obviously cut out every piece of the message that Jeff
wrote ...

Tim Delaney




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