Comment on draft PEP for deprecating six builtins
James J. Besemer
jb at cascade-sys.com
Mon Apr 29 12:54:30 EDT 2002
gbreed at cix.compulink.co.uk wrote:
> The rationale's very brief about the disadvantages of a bloated
> __builtins__. It isn't like they're reserved words. We don't need to be
> familiar with them all, because we can always check the library reference
> if we see one we don't know.
There is ZERO benefit to moving these several operators from builtins to a
module. People unfamiliar with them will be equally confused in either case,
perhaps more so.
> I don't see any benefits to outweigh the pain this is going to cause some
> of us.
Ditto.
--jb
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