Note: I am quoting "Passiday" to get this thread back on subject however my reply is for "alex23" the philosopher"
On Sep 29, 9:50 pm, alex23 <wuwe...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sep 29, 10:23 pm, rantingrick <rantingr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > What is so bad about breaking code in obscure places? > > Try coding in PHP across minor release versions and see how you feel > about deprecating core functions on a whim. I never said we should remove it now, i said we should deprecate it now. > > We changed print > > to a function which broke just about every piece of code every written > > in this language. > > In a well declared _break_ with backwards compatibility. Not on a whim > between minor releases. Please Google deprecate. > > What is so bad then about breaking some very obscure code? > > Because while you say "some very obscure code", what you really mean > is "code that isn't mine". Well "alex" i can't see a mob approaching with pitchforks because we deprecate a misplaced and rarely used functionality of the stdlib. > As you have no access > to the inner states of _any_ of the people you regularly condemn here > with your hypocritical attacks, I've no idea why you consider yourself > to be an expert on their desires and opinions. Well "alex", like yourself, i hold expertise in many fields BESIDES programming. One of which being psychology. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
