On 06Dec2008 11:30, Andreas Waldenburger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On 6 Dec 2008 09:18:20 GMT Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | wrote: | > On Sat, 06 Dec 2008 09:56:12 +0100, Antoine De Groote wrote: | > [snip reference to "preferably only one way to do it"] | > | > The reason why I'm against that change too. It adds a second, | > alternative way to express something that is already in the language. | > | > > I agree that for newcomers to Python, the class method definition | > > might seem strange. | > | > And after the change it continues to because they will run into | > *both* variants in tutorials, code, and books, so it might be even | > more confusing. | > | I agree with that view. Not much to add to it, just increasing the | weight.
Me too. And it smells like Perl if we let the $ get in there. And it doesn't add any facility to the language - it's just syntactic lint. So -1 from me. -- Cameron Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
