General question about Python design goals

Ed Singleton singletoned at gmail.com
Thu Dec 1 04:26:26 EST 2005


On 29/11/05, Christoph Zwerschke <cito at online.de> wrote:
> Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> > on the other hand, it's also possible that there are perfectly usable ways
> > to keep bikes and bike seats dry where Christoph works, but that he prefers
> > not to use them because they're violating some design rule.
>
> Depends on how you understand "perfectly usable." My collegue always
> carries his expensive racing bike to our office in the 3rd floor out of
> fear it may get wet or stolen. But I think this is not very convenient
> and I want to avoid discussions with our boss about skid marks on the
> carpet and things like that. Probably that collegue would not complain
> as well if he had to cast tuples to lists for counting items - you see,
> people are different ;-)

If you're leaving skid marks on the floor, maybe you need better underwear?

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=skid+marks+slang

Sorry to lower the tone.

Ed



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