voting method flawed? [Re: Alternative decorator syntax decision]

Ville Vainio ville at spammers.com
Fri Aug 20 11:22:04 EDT 2004


>>>>> "Doug" == Doug Holton <insert at spam.here> writes:

    Doug> I've heard of different voting methods like ranking your top
    Doug> choices, but I've never heard of this one.  It appears that
    Doug> if someone is open minded about more than one option, their
    Doug> opinion counts *less* that someone who is doggedly
    Doug> determined about one particular syntax.  They get three
    Doug> votes while you get one.  That doesn't seem fair or the best
    Doug> way to determine a community favorite.

I think it's less about finding a community favourite than just
picking out one or two alternative approaches for Guido's
consideration. The idea is to reduce the number of syntaxes to shoot
down :-).

-- 
Ville Vainio   http://tinyurl.com/2prnb



More information about the Python-list mailing list