python 3's adoption

Alf P. Steinbach alfps at start.no
Wed Jan 27 12:52:57 EST 2010


* Steve Holden:
> Alf P. Steinbach wrote:
> [...]
>> The main problem with the incompatibility is for porting code, not for
>> writing code from scratch. It's also a problem wrt. learning the
>> language. And I see no good reason for it: print can't really do more,
>> or less, or more conveniently (rather, one has to write a bit more now
>> for same effect).
> 
> Of course it can do more: it allows you to layer your own print
> functionality into the system much more easily than you could with the
> print statement.

Yeah, point. Very minor though. :-)


Cheers,

- Alf



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