Guybrush and the Swordmaster (was: For review: PEP 308 - If-then-else expression)
Christian Tismer
tismer at tismer.com
Sun Feb 9 12:17:59 EST 2003
One dialog between Holger Krekel and Andrew Koenig
reminded me of the old Monkey Island game.
Does anybody remember?
Guybrush Threepwood fighting with the Swordmaster:
'You fight like a cow!'
"How appropriate!"
'You will wear my sword like a Sish Kebab!'
"I'm shakin', I'm shakin'!"
I carelessly reduced and cutted their (absolutely
positive) dispute into a form that resembles this a bit.
> holger> Still "Readability counts."
>
> And readability is often subjective.
>
> holger> "Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules."
>
> Although practicality beats purity.
>
> holger> Sure, why not use perl, then?
>
> A sufficient reason for me is the lack of orthogonality in Perl's
> type system.
>
> holger> f) is not an important enough use case to warrant new syntax
>
> Subjective.
Thanks for the funny message that rang this bell :-)
unseriously y'rs - chris
p.s.: Let's vote who of the two is Guybrush
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