On Feb 18, 11:22 pm, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Feb 18, 10:26 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aahz) wrote: > >> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > >> Paul Rubin <http://[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aahz) writes: > >>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > >>>>> Some of the ideas that have been proposed on Python-ideas as well as > >>>>> Python, have received partial evaluation from the alphas. > >>>> What do you mean by "alphas"? > >>> Alpha test releases are the round of test distributions before the > >>> beta tests, which come before the release candidates which come before > >>> the final release. > >> Interesting, but I would bet that castironpi actually is referring to > >> "alpha males" (particularly in the context of "big shots"); however, your > >> confusion is precisely why I called it out. Incoherent writing rarely > >> flies well in this community (which is one reason why I love Python!). > >> -- > >> Aahz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ > > >> "All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of > >> indirection." --Butler Lampson > > > Who you callin' denigrates? Ahem. You think your ships don't > > sink? ;) > > Humor. Arf arf. > > > The problem did not seem to be miscommunication, rather bias. > > > What part of, "No one took the train before it was invented," do you > > not understand? > > The problem with this complaint is you simply seem to be saying "there's > a better language out there somewhere". No clue as to where it is, no > clue as to how it might be approached. Merely a suggestion that adding > randomly suggested features to Python, that are currently rejected for > what appear to me to be mostly sound reasons, will somehow lead us to > these undiscovered treasures. > > > No one climbed Mount Everest before it was discovered, and it wasn't > > the tallest mountain until then either. > > It *was* the tallest mountain - it existed before its discovery, and its > "discovery" wasn't news to the Sherpas who had been living on it for > hundreds of years.
They hadn't discovered it -ei-ther! What is Mount Everest!? Anyway, I am saying, "there's a good feature out there." As I've said before: library additions are one thing; syntax changes are another. What, in terms of the former, do the gurus rule -out- point blank? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
