Pythonification of the asterisk-based collection packing/unpacking syntax

[Roy Smith]

Sorry, I wasn't meaning to imply support for the syntax proposal.  Just reacting to the (seemingly unrelated) comment that a customer with foolish access policies would not be worthy of your business.  Only because I've been in the situation of having to provide remote support to major customers with similar absurd policies :-)



On Dec 19, 2011, at 8:10 PM, Joshua Landau wrote:

> On 20 December 2011 00:30, Roy Smith <roy at panix.com> wrote:
> In article <mailman.3827.1324331890.27778.python-list at python.org>,
>  Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8825 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > But what about the example he gave about being logged into a customer's
> > machine with only ed available? I suppose such fools would not be worthy
> > of your business.
> 
> The customer is always right.  Especially when the support contract is
> big enough to make or break your quarter.
> --
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
> 
> This whole conversation is ridiculous. Do we really want a syntax that's worse just to satisfy the 1/10,000 cases* where someone will be using ed or notepad?
> 
> Correct Answer: no.
> 
> * Probably less, as I use vim many_times_a_day * many_days_a_year - and even less if we consider that no-one'll be doing as much coding in an hour of ed as in an hour of <better_editor>


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Roy Smith
roy at panix.com



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