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

[Aahz]

In article <3d455445_9 at news.newsgroups.com>, JB  <jb at hotmail.com> wrote:
>Tim Peters wrote:
>>
>> two language features are mentioned as being "failed
>> experiments" that only compatibility prevents throwing
>> away:
>> 
>>     `back ticks`
>>     lambda
>
>(1) Why are back ticks a failure? I love them.

If you're using backticks frequently, you're probably not programming
Pythonically.  There's already repr() to produce the same result as
backticks, and backticks have the problem that in many fonts they're
nearly indistinguishable from single quotes.
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