Who makes up these rules, anyway?

[Roel Schroeven]

Cameron Laird schreef:
> In article <fv58ce$1bb$1 at lairds.us>,
> Gabriel Genellina <python-url at phaseit.net> wrote:
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>>    Explicit variable declaration for functions:
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>> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/6c4a508edd2fbe04/
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> A reader notes that this thread actually lived during 2004 (!)
> (entirely during January 2004, in fact), and mildly questions 
> its pertinence to what bills itself as "weekly Python news ..."
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> Well might the reader wonder.  "Python-URL!" has long chosen
> to err on the side of INclusiveness in its categorizations,
> even to the occasional point of apparent frivolity.  As Harlan
> Ellison used to advise his readers, think of it as a bonus,
> rather than a mistake.  It's our tradition, too.

I assumed it was a mix-up with the recent thread with the same name: 
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/f3832259c6da530


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Roel Schroeven