Python was designed (was Re: Multi-threading in Python vs Java)

[Mark Janssen]

On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 3:10 PM, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:
> On 10/17/2013 01:57 PM, Ned Batchelder wrote:
>>
>>
>> Read and listen more.  Write and say less.
>
>
> Mark Janssen has no interest in learning.  From a thread long-ago:
>
> Mark Janssen wrote:
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>> Ethan Furman wrote:
>>>
>>> Mark Janssen wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Really?
>>>>
>>>> --> int="five"
>>>> --> [int(i) for i in ["1","2","3"]]
>>>>
>>>> TypeError:  str is not callable
>>>>
>>>> Now how are you going to get the original int type back?
>>>

Thank you for bringing this back up.  Was it you who suggested that
built-in are re-assignable?  Because this is a bad idea for the
reasons I just showed.  My error in that example was going into arcane
points that I should have cross-checked in the Python language
definition (that built-ins were or were *not* assignable), then I
wouldn't have had to have made my (otherwise valid) point, that there
is no magical "stack" which will remember your language re-assignment
so that you can get it back, but then the example should have never
been pushed into existence in the first place.

-- 
MarkJ
Tacoma, Washington