PEP 308: A PEP Writer's Experience - CON

[John Roth]

"holger krekel" <pyth at devel.trillke.net> wrote in message
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> Jack Diederich wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 05:31:46PM +0000, Andrew Koenig wrote:
> > > Seriously, it
> > > often seems that the smallest changes generate the most
controversy.
> >
> > There is a long post on a BSD list somewhere that compares it to
> > painting a shed.   Everyone understands the concept and will give
> > an opinion on the color.  It is impossible to paint a shed by
> > comittee because there are too many opinions.  It is much easier
> > to get a committee to approve a radical new widget because they
> > just up or down vote it as a whole.
> >
> > Having a BDFL is how the shed painting problem is side stepped
altogether.
> > In this case the BDFL asked the committee to up or down vote the
color red.
> >
> > Hillarity ensues.
>
> I think it's more that this has been discussed for a couple of years
now and
> he wants people to stop whining.  And he obviously doesn't have a
strong
> oppinion of it either way.  Some people think it's important to have
it
> one way or the other and so he lets them (instead of him) argue
> about the color <wink>.

The trouble is, it won't stop the whining. Nothing will except
implementing
something. I kind of agree with Guido's version - it's the best
alternative
I've seen actually discussed. I like mine better (add an option for lazy
evaluation of function operands) but since nobody seems interested in
discussing it, it really isn't on the table.

John Roth
>
>     holger
>