PEP308: Yet another syntax proposal

Erik Max Francis max at alcyone.com
Tue Feb 11 03:06:39 EST 2003


Alexander Schmolck wrote:

> Frequency * expressivness comes close to measure the usefulness of a
> construct. So for something that adds near 0 expressiveness, the
> frequency
> argument is extremely convincing.

So now to use these frequency statistics (which are contentious by about
an order of magnitude), all we have to do is come up with a metric for
expressiveness that everyone will agree on to legitimize these
statistics.  Hmm, right.

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