Terry Reedy wrote: > "Jeff Schwab" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > [snip discussion of 'with' statements] > > | Yes, this seems to be the Python way: For each popular feature of some > | other language, create a less flexible Python feature that achieves the > | same effect in the most common cases (e.g. lambda to imitate function > | literals, or recursive assignment to allow x = y = z). > > This is a rather acute observation. Another example is generators versus > full coroutines (or continuations). Guido is content to capture 80% of the > practical use cases of a feature. He never intended Python to be a 100% > replace-everything language.
I think the idea is to balance power on one hand, against complexity and potential confusion on the other. One great thing about C is that a programmer can realistically hope to know the entire language definition; maybe Guido would like the same to be true of Python. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
