Case Statements
Mark Lawrence
breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk
Wed Mar 16 13:24:20 EDT 2016
On 16/03/2016 15:27, Antoon Pardon wrote:
> Op 16-03-16 om 15:02 schreef Mark Lawrence:
>> On 16/03/2016 13:38, Antoon Pardon wrote:
>>> Op 16-03-16 om 12:07 schreef Mark Lawrence:
>>>>
>>>> Raise the item on the python-ideas mailing list for the umpteenth time
>>>> then, and see how far you get.
>>>
>>> I don't care enough. I do care about people using valid arguments.
>>>
>>
>> Arguments have been made for and against. When the PEPs were rejected
>> are you saying that the arguments for acceptance were actually
>> stronger than the arguments for rejection?
>>
> No, I was just saying that your argument: "We've done without for 25
> years" is invalid, because that would imply python should no longer make
> any progress. Because any progress that will be made now, we've done
> without for 25 years. -- Antoon
>
So putting something into the language that we don't actually need is
progress? Hum, in my book that's just plain weird.
--
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.
Mark Lawrence
More information about the Python-list
mailing list