What has PEP 285 done to us?

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

>>>>> "aahz" == aahz  <aahz at pythoncraft.com> writes:

    aahz> Unfortunately, I have to say that the stridency you
    aahz> exhibited in this thread (to my startlement)

Trust your startlement, not your logic.

    aahz> See?  You're implying here that Guido did *not* put on his
    aahz> "language designer" hat, and in a rather subtle way, to
    aahz> boot.  You're contradicting the very point you're trying to
    aahz> make by your use of language.

It could be taken that way, if you gloss the past tense of "trusted"
with "and now I don't", implying "but he didn't".  Or you could take
it literally, applying to the case under discussion, and gloss it as
"and he did and now it's done and _I_ accept that (even though it was
479 lines important to me), so why don't y'all do the same and stop
making such a deal out of it?"

Neither gloss is very reliable just based on the words, although I
think the latter fits much better with the theme of Laura's post.  And
with Laura.

Trust the people, far more than the words.

-- 
Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences     http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp
University of Tsukuba                    Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN
              Don't ask how you can "do" free software business;
              ask what your business can "do for" free software.