[Python-Dev] PEP202

Greg Ewing greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Wed, 26 Jul 2000 15:07:10 +1200 (NZST)


"Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com> said:

> What they want to be is an applicative sublanguage in functional
> style

Um, that might be what *you* want them to be, but it's the
complete opposite of what *I* want them to be, which is a
way of getting away from all those convoluted combinator 
constructs!

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