for -- else: what was the motivation?

[Antoon Pardon]

Op 16/10/2022 om 19:03 schreef Chris Angelico:
> On Mon, 17 Oct 2022 at 03:57, Antoon Pardon<antoon.pardon at vub.be>  wrote:
>>
>> Op 16/10/2022 om 17:05 schreef Chris Angelico:
>>> On Sun, 16 Oct 2022 at 22:47, Antoon Pardon<antoon.pardon at vub.be>   wrote:
>>>> Why would I need good luck? I expressed an idea and you didn't like it.
>>>> That won't affect my life in a meaningful way.
>>> Well, with that attitude, it's not going to affect anyone else's life
>>> either, so go ahead, carry on.
>> What attitude? I just floated a little idea. It was not meant/expected to
>> affect anyone else's life. So why do you react as if it was?
>>
> You expressed an idea that you would like to see implemented in
> Python, and part of that idea was that people would be *obliged* to
> write their code using non-ASCII keywords. If that were to be
> implemented, it absolutely WOULD affect many people's lives.

So what? I made it clear that was an if I didn't expect to happen.
An idea that doesn't happen will not affect anyone, whatever the
consequences tied to the idea.

>   So if
> you're saying that your idea was not meant to affect anyone else's
> life, you are saying that you floated the idea fully intending for it
> to be ignored, which makes me wonder why you posted it in the first
> place.

People can find it interesting to discuss an idea, even if they think
there is no chance the idea will be carried out.

-- 
Antoon Pardon