Lambda: the Ultimate Design Flaw

François Pinard pinard at iro.umontreal.ca
Wed Apr 6 09:33:08 EDT 2005


[Aahz]

> [François]

> >Many of us are using Python today, week after week, year long.  So
> >let's be pragmatic.  Python is what it became and now is.  Let's not
> >define it as a memory from the past nor as a futuristic dream.

> You're free to continue using 1.5.2.  [...]

Sure, of course.  Yet, our friendly argument is sliding away from was it
originally was.  The point was about not asserting in this forum that
Python "has only one way to do it", because this is not true anymore.

The principle has been, it may be back in some distant future, but now
it is not.

-- 
François Pinard   http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca



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