Gerhard Fiedler wrote: > On 2006-07-20 18:10:21, danielx wrote: > > >>> When supporting documents aren't sufficient to learn an api (I'm sure > >>> this never happens, so just humor me), you can always turn to > >>> interactive Python. > >> > >> ...and source code... > > > > *shudders* What happened to all the goodness of abstraction? > > Abstraction as you seem to use it requires complete docs of the interface. > Which is what you said you don't have... So the original abstractor broke > the abstraction when publishing insufficient docs, not the one who looks > into the sources to find out what actually happens.
Absolutely. I didn't mean the user was breaking abstraction (let's not blame the victim). I was saying that we should really have more sympathy for him. > > (This independently of the merits of abstraction.) > > Gerhard -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
