Deposing Dictators

James Logajan JamesL at Lugoj.Com
Sun Aug 5 19:08:01 EDT 2001


Tim Peters wrote:
> The meaning of division a program needs depends entirely on context.  Any
> meaning is "wrong" in some programming contexts.

Oops. Talk about scorched earth arguments. Given that, I think you've just
made it an issue decided by a preponderance of opinion (i.e. a vote). Unless
you and/or Guido admit to knowledge of all possible programming contexts?

(What harm do you believe befalls Python if nothing is done?)



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