Suggested coding style

[Westley Martínez]

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 05:23:30AM -0700, rantingrick wrote:
> On Sep 29, 5:37 am, Passiday <passi... at gmail.com> wrote:
>  
> What is so bad about breaking code in obscure places? We changed print
> to a function which broke just about every piece of code every written
> in this language. (BTW, print should ALWAYS have been a function!)
> What is so bad then about breaking some very obscure code? We could
> always have a lengthy deprecation period.
> 

Well, I once thought that a print function made a lot of sense.  In C,
printf is a function, however then I think why print is a function.  In
C, just about every function has side effects (the return values are
more often than not either pointers or status codes).  In Python
functions are encouraged to not have side-effects, so the implementation
of print as a statement or a method makes far more sense than as a
function.

But maybe I'm just batty as you all think I am.