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Gordon McMillan
gmcm at hypernet.com
Sat Sep 4 09:56:36 EDT 1999
> [Skip Montanaro]
> > If Tim gave it as an example, he's probably used it in his own code
> > somewhere with good reason <wink>, but anybody else caught
> > programming that way ought to be shot.
[Tim]
> Let's generalize that: everyone other than Tim should be shot
> period.
>
> Oh, all right. Everyone other than Tim and Skip. Not sure about
> Guido. Ya, OK, him too. Gordon? Eeeeew, I can't really recommend
> *killing* him with a clear conscience. That tears it! Nobody gets
> shot, everybody lives.
Saved the world before breakfast yet again. Damn, I better shave
before the reporters get here. Oops, too late. Hi guys, you remember
the rules - don't park in the petunias and don't track dog shit into
the house...
> Let's shift the ground of the debate: I'd bet Guido's life that
> this won't go into 1.6, and I think most long-timers would agree
> with that regardless of their opinion of the technical merits pro or
> con (new keyword?! more likely Tom Christiansen posts 10 energetic
> msgs bemoaning the lack of Python docs in PowerPoint format <wink>).
> But what about Python2? If there were a clean way to plug the hole
> in that, would you object?
As already noted, I _hate_ the explicit distinction of "functions"
and "procedures"; I would _hate_ to have to explicitly discard
unwanted results. Michael Hudson's hacks have a certain amount of
appeal, but that's without seeing what the further consequences are.
> Having asked that, I think I at least halfway object to the very
> question, since it's a distraction from attacking much bigger
> insecurities.
>
> leap-over-a-glass-shard-and-land-in-a-bear-trap-ly y'rs - tim
I _told_ you not to park in the petunias.
- Gordon
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