PEP0238 lament

[Michael Abbott]

"Arthur Siegel" <ajs at ix.netcom.com> wrote in 
news:mailman.995894318.12197.python-list at python.org:

> 
> To the extent anybody cares - and there is no particular
> reason anybody should - the anger in my posts that Guido
> interprets as directed toward him, is real anger.  But not
> meant to be directed at him.
> 
> Except to the extent that I feel he unwittingly collaborates
> in the breakdown of community dynamics.  Aloofness from
> the community should count against, not for, one's cause -
> whatever it happens to be.

Actually, I'm quite suprised at just how rude Guido is in his replies.

Just for the record, I think that PEP0238 is an extremely stupid idea, and 
that the last thing Python needs is a deluge of half baked and incompatible 
changes.