survey: is shelve broken? should it be fixed?

Martin v. Löwis loewis at informatik.hu-berlin.de
Tue May 7 12:48:05 EDT 2002


Alex Martelli <aleax at aleax.it> writes:

> > I wouldn't call the feature 'smart', but rather describe somehow what
> > it does, 
> 
> What it does it "avoid laying a trap for the user by having a behavior
> that tends to be rather surprising".  But that's rather longish 

Also, you should strive for the most specific description of what it
does. 'enhance python' is a description of many changes, yet people
rarely suggest 'enhance' as a parameter name.

Regards,
Martin



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