[Python-Dev] Death to string functions!

[Guido van Rossum]

> I think most care more about readbility than about run time performance.
> For people without much OOP experience, the method syntax hurts
> readability.

I don't believe one bit of this.  By that standard, we would do better
to define a new module "list" and start writing list.append(L, x) for
L.append(x).

> I share Mark Lutz and Tim Peters oppinion, that this crusade will do 
> more harm than good to Python community.  IMO this is a really bad
> idea.

You are entitled to your opinion, but given that your arguments seem
very weak I will continue to ignore it (except to argue with you :-).

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)