Comment on draft PEP for deprecating six builtins

[James J. Besemer]

gbreed at cix.compulink.co.uk wrote:

> The rationale's very brief about the disadvantages of a bloated
> __builtins__.  It isn't like they're reserved words.  We don't need to be
> familiar with them all, because we can always check the library reference
> if we see one we don't know.

There is ZERO benefit to moving these several operators from builtins to a
module.  People unfamiliar with them will be equally confused in either case,
perhaps more so.

> I don't see any benefits to outweigh the pain this is going to cause some
> of us.

Ditto.

--jb

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