atmosphere on c.l.py (WAS: How about "pure virtual methods"?)

[Simon Wittber]

> I do understand the feeling though; Fredrik Lundh jumped at me only a
> few days ago when I said that I personally found list comprehensions
> more readable than map.  I certainly don't mind being advised or
> corrected if I've written incorrect or even just suboptimal code, but
> attacking a person's mental processes seems kind of needlessly
> aggressive to me.

We've just had a Python 2.4 release, and poor Mr Lundh has likely had
hundreds of user's clamouring for a binary, 2.4 compatible PIL
release.

That's enough to make any programmer grumpy.

Sw.