PEP308: Yet another syntax proposal
Erik Max Francis
max at alcyone.com
Tue Feb 11 20:21:57 EST 2003
Alexander Schmolck wrote:
> Even with an order of magnitude uncertainty (and I'd think one could
> do
> better), the frequency doesn't look to impressive, does it?
Did you even read what I've said? The frequency by itself means
_nothing_. How often are generators used? list comprehensions?
metaclasses?
No one ever said that conditional operators (in any language) were so
ubiquitous that Python _had_ to have them. Frequency arguments defeat
strawmen.
> Even without bothering to come up with some formal and quantifiable
> criterion
> of expressiveness, couldn't we just reach the consensus that something
> that
> can be trivially and compactly rewritten with existing language
> constructs
> isn't all that expressive?
Right, with idioms that are short, unreadable, and wrong.
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