Who makes up these rules, anyway? (was: Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Apr 28))

[Cameron Laird]

In article <fv58ce$1bb$1 at lairds.us>,
Gabriel Genellina <python-url at phaseit.net> wrote:
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>    Explicit variable declaration for functions:
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>http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/6c4a508edd2fbe04/
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A reader notes that this thread actually lived during 2004 (!)
(entirely during January 2004, in fact), and mildly questions 
its pertinence to what bills itself as "weekly Python news ..."

Well might the reader wonder.  "Python-URL!" has long chosen
to err on the side of INclusiveness in its categorizations,
even to the occasional point of apparent frivolity.  As Harlan
Ellison used to advise his readers, think of it as a bonus,
rather than a mistake.  It's our tradition, too.