syntax error?why?

[Steve Holden]

Peter Hansen wrote:
> 
> > > Robert L Hicks wrote:
> > >>
> > >> I don't think this is a bug. It caught the error. Sure it should be more
> > >> informational but that doesn't classify it as a bug.
> 
> Robert L Hicks then wrote:
> >
> > It works...it could just work better. That doesn't make it a bug.
> 
> Actually, according to the definitions at
> http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=bug (and the
> most-referenced synonym at
> http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=defect), that *does* make
> it a bug (for prescriptive semanticists, anyway).
> 
> Anyway, why get your knickers in a knot over something as minor as the
> question of which word to use to describe the idea that it might be
> possible to *improve* the current behaviour of Python?  Bug, blemish,
> glitch, feature... whatever.

What, you mean I've been a prescriptive semanticist all this
time and I've just been calling myself a computer scientist?

But-my-knickers-were-never-that-knotted-ly y'rs - steve
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