evaluation question

[Greg Ewing]

On 31/01/23 10:24 pm, Muttley at dastardlyhq.com wrote:
> All languages have their ugly corners due to initial design mistakes and/or
> constraints. Eg: java with the special behaviour of its string class, C++
> with "=0" pure virtual declaration. But they don't dump them and make all old
> code suddenly cease to execute.

No, but it was decided that Python 3 would have to be backwards
incompatible, mainly to sort out the Unicode mess. Given that,
the opportunity was taken to clean up some other mistakes as well.

-- 
Greg