Gerhard Fiedler wrote: > A design choice is not necessarily a > bad choice just because it turns out that some 30 years later there is a > similar common product whose creators made a different choice, and now > programmers have to cater to both.
To be fair, this isn't the reason he gave for it being a bad design choice. His reason was that MS chose to use the escape character as their path separator. But of course I still agree with you that in either case it's not a judgment you can fairly make 30 years after the fact. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
