evaluation question

[Muttley at dastardlyhq.com]

On Tue, 31 Jan 2023 12:57:33 +1300
Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
>On 30/01/23 10:41 pm, Muttley at dastardlyhq.com wrote:
>> What was the point of the upheaval of converting
>> the print command in python 2 into a function in python 3 if as a function
>> print() doesn't return anything useful?
>
>It was made a function because there's no good reason for it
>to have special syntax in the language.

All languages have their ugly corners due to initial design mistakes and/or
constraints. Eg: java with the special behaviour of its string class, C++
with "=0" pure virtual declaration. But they don't dump them and make all old
code suddenly cease to execute.

Pragmatism should always come before language purity.