Python design failures (was Re: Let's Talk About Lambda Functions!)

[JB]

Daniel Fackrell wrote:

> `object` == repr(object), both of which will call
> object.__repr__, if it exists.
> 
> I think that the general consensus is that repr(object) is
> much more
> readable than the relatively obscure syntax `object`. 
> Also, as written previously, the ` is easily confused with
> ' in many fonts.

Maybe. But using the backticks is much shorter, much more 
elegant. I should not want to do without them.
Readability or even legibility has never been a problem for 
me. (I have problem with booleans, but this is another 
story.)

-- 
JB


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