Exception as the primary error handling mechanism?

[Steve Holden]

Phlip wrote:
> On Jan 6, 10:23 am, Lie Ryan <lie.1... at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 1/7/2010 3:41 AM, Phlip wrote:
>>
>>> Steve Holden wrote:
>>>> y'all just keep defending the approach to programming that
>>>> *you* think is best.
>>> Speak for yourself...
>> Everyone speaks for themselves, is that a problem?
> 
> Of course not. I was pointing out that Steve is telling me not to
> force my programming opinions on everyone...
> 
> ...while defending Python enforcing programming opinions on everyone.
> 
That's because Python is not a person, and Guido is a better language
designer than both of us put together. No languagecan be all things to
all programmers, and Python represents a set of pragmatic and useful
choices.

> And now, if everyone will excuse me, I have to get back to writing a
> unit-test-to-code ratio of 2:1. Have fun being rigorous, everyone!

Consider yourself excused ;-)

regards
 Steve
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