The big shots

[castironpi at gmail.com]

On Feb 18, 11:22 pm, Steve Holden <st... at holdenweb.com> wrote:
> castiro... at gmail.com wrote:
> > On Feb 18, 10:26 pm, a... at pythoncraft.com (Aahz) wrote:
> >> In article <7xmypx61z6.... at ruckus.brouhaha.com>,
> >> Paul Rubin  <http://phr...@NOSPAM.invalid> wrote:
>
> >>> a... at pythoncraft.com (Aahz) writes:
> >>>> castiro... at gmail.com:
> >>>>> Some of the ideas that have been proposed on Python-ideas as well as
> >>>>> Python, have received partial evaluation from the alphas.
> >>>> What do you mean by "alphas"?
> >>> Alpha test releases are the round of test distributions before the
> >>> beta tests, which come before the release candidates which come before
> >>> the final release.  
> >> Interesting, but I would bet that castironpi actually is referring to
> >> "alpha males" (particularly in the context of "big shots"); however, your
> >> confusion is precisely why I called it out.  Incoherent writing rarely
> >> flies well in this community (which is one reason why I love Python!).
> >> --
> >> Aahz (a... at pythoncraft.com)           <*>        http://www.pythoncraft.com/
>
> >> "All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of    
> >> indirection."  --Butler Lampson
>
> > Who you callin' denigrates?  Ahem.  You think your ships don't
> > sink?  ;)
>
> Humor. Arf arf.
>
> > The problem did not seem to be miscommunication, rather bias.
>
> > What part of, "No one took the train before it was invented," do you
> > not understand?
>
> The problem with this complaint is you simply seem to be saying "there's
> a better language out there somewhere". No clue as to where it is, no
> clue as to how it might be approached. Merely a suggestion that adding
> randomly suggested features to Python, that are currently rejected for
> what appear to me to be mostly sound reasons, will somehow lead us to
> these undiscovered treasures.
>
> > No one climbed Mount Everest before it was discovered, and it wasn't
> > the tallest mountain until then either.
>
> It *was* the tallest mountain - it existed before its discovery, and its
> "discovery" wasn't news to the Sherpas who had been living on it for
> hundreds of years.

They hadn't discovered it -ei-ther!  What is Mount Everest!?

Anyway, I am saying, "there's a good feature out there."

As I've said before: library additions are one thing; syntax changes
are another.

What, in terms of the former, do the gurus rule -out- point blank?