allowing braces around suites
Kjetil Torgrim Homme
kjetilho at yksi.ifi.uio.no
Mon Aug 30 20:06:36 EDT 2004
[Jacek Generowicz]:
>
> Kjetil Torgrim Homme <kjetilho at yksi.ifi.uio.no> writes:
>
> > ["pass"] should only be used when a suite is required, but the
> > suite should do nothing.
>
> I'll have to take your word for it, that this is THE WAY. Oh, wait
> a minute ... I don't take people's word for it, and I don't
> subscribe to programming dogmas, partuclarly when they get in the
> way of getting something useful done. Never mind, then.
> [...]
> I'm not presupposing any convention, I'm observing the current
> state of the world and finding a working solution in it. You are
> tilting at windmills.
"I don't subscribe to programming dogmas", hmm? I guess "braces are
unworthy of Python" isn't dogma, it's the Truth.
> > and IMHO [abusing "pass" is] not worthy of a Python program.
>
> Whereas braces are worthy of a Python program.
certainly. explicit is better than implicit, you know :-)
thank you for your input, I will cover the "pass" hack in the
PEP.
--
Kjetil T.
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