[Python-Dev] vox populii illiterati

holger krekel pyth@devel.trillke.net
Sun, 9 Feb 2003 15:56:35 +0100


M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> [gvr]
> > I admit I've lost some of my patience.  Showing that there is immense
> > resistance to if-then-else expressions (even if there is also a lot of
> > pressure to add them) would make it easier in the future to explain
> > why they aren't there.
> 
> Good plan :-)
> 
> Except maybe one nit: some of us here in python-dev don't read
> c.l.p, so their vote wouldn't get taken into account. Even though
> you didn't want this to be discussed here, I hope you don't mind
> posting my -1 here.

It seems there we will a separate Call-for-votes (probably done
by Aahz) also to the announce list so it's not too difficult 
to participate. 

Nobody will try to sort out the votes from the well over 
600 postings (and growing).  No doubt, the real motiviation
was to boost python's popularity so that it wins the 'february'
comparisons of language newsgroup activities. 

    holger