I come to praise .join, not to bury it...

Erno Kuusela erno-news at erno.iki.fi
Tue Mar 6 08:09:32 EST 2001


In article <982a4f0su3 at news1.newsguy.com>, "Alex Martelli"
<aleaxit at yahoo.com> writes:

| "Erno Kuusela" <erno-news at erno.iki.fi> wrote in message

|| what's wrong with vague aesthetic?-) if lots of people share it,
|| it's not to be dismissed so lightly.

| Lots of people share the 'vague aesthetic' of desiring
| to use braces instead of whitespace to delimit blocks
| of statements, for example.

| Python dismisses that lightly, and that is definitely
| a part of what makes it such a wonderful language.

it could also be argued that python uses whitespace instead
of braces because of vague aesthetic shared by lots of people. :)

  -- erno






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