[Python-3000] A few small py3k wishes

[Michael P. Soulier]

On 04/04/06 Gareth McCaughan said:

> [of course I meant to type "push". Lisp's operator names
> are obscure sometimes, but not that obscure]

Indeed. 

> I'd forgotten that Perl has a "push" with that behaviour. And,
> come to think of it, Lisp has VECTOR-PUSH and VECTOR-PUSH-EXTEND
> that add onto the end of a vector. Inconsistent naming: Bad Lisp!
> Bad! No biscuit!

:)

> Anyway, Python surely has more perlites than lispniks among
> its newcomers. So: the dubious antiprecedent of Lisp's PUSH
> is outweighed by the precedent of Perl's and somewhat invalidated
> by Lisp's internal inconsistency. I retract everything :-).

Well, I am one disillusioned Perl programmer who came to find Python the
answer to my Perl complaints...almost. I'm just trying to fix the almost part
now.

> Oh, yes. The combination is ... peculiar.

Yup. 

Mike

-- 
Michael P. Soulier <msoulier at digitaltorque.ca>
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It
takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite
direction." --Albert Einstein
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