Question about idioms for clearing a list

[Fredrik Lundh]

Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> As for the earlier suggestion that it would be obvious if only I'd done
> the tutorial, if you need to be taught something it is hardly obvious
> is it? Otherwise "obvious" loses all meaning, and we can say any feature,
> no matter how obscure, is obvious if only you'd read the right book, had
> the right teacher, taken the right college degree.

you seem to be missing that we're talking about a programming language
here.  nothing is obvious if you don't know anything about the language;
a lot of things are obvious once you've learned a little about it.  a little is
all it takes.  why is that so hard to understand ?

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