On Aug 16, 2011, at 12:19 PM, Ethan Furman wrote: > Philip Semanchuk wrote: >> On Aug 16, 2011, at 11:41 AM, Ethan Furman wrote: >>> Philip Semanchuk wrote: >>>> If we are to eschew warnings in >>>> cases where they might be highlighting something harmless, then we would >>>> have no warnings at all. > >> >>> Sounds good to me. ;) Keep such things in the IDE's, and then those > >> who desire such behavior can have it there. Do not clutter Python with > >> such. >> You wink, yet you sound serious. > > The smiley is an attempt to not sound harsh.
Thanks. It's hard to know on the Internet. >>> I don't see that as a problem that Python needs to solve. >> "need" is a strong word. Python will be fine regardless of whether this >> changes > > or not. I believe Python could be improved; that's all I'm arguing. > > Python can be improved -- I don't see 'hand-holding' as an improvement. IDEs > and lints can do this. When you say "hand-holding", I hear a pejorative. That makes "I don't see 'hand-holding' as an improvement" a tautology. Have I misheard you? I think Python does lots of beneficial hand-holding. Garbage collection is a good example. $DIETY knows, people have been struggling with manual memory management in C and its ilk for a long time. Even though there are good tools to help, memory leaks still happen. Python increases our productivity by allowing us to forget about manual memory management altogether. I can do it with tools like valgrind, but Python's makes the point moot. Is that hand-holding? If so, I'm all for it. Cheers Philip -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
