> > On Sep 29, 10:23 pm, rantingrick <rantingr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > What is so bad about breaking code in obscure places?
> On Sep 29, 9:50 pm, alex23 <wuwe...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Try coding in PHP across minor release versions and see how you feel > > about deprecating core functions on a whim. On Sep 30, 11:54 pm, rantingrick <rantingr...@gmail.com> wrote: > I never said we should remove it now, i said we should deprecate it > now. Actually, *I* said deprecate, *you* said break. I don't see the word 'remove' anywhere in my comment. > Please Google deprecate. Please read what I wrote rather than what you want me to have said. > Well "alex" i can't see a mob approaching with pitchforks because we > deprecate a misplaced and rarely used functionality of the stdlib. No, but you don't see a lot of things. You're genuinely convinced that your viewpoint is superior and singularly correct. I don't think you're a reasonable arbiter of what functionality should be added or removed from the stdlib. > Well "alex", like yourself, i hold expertise in many fields BESIDES > programming. One of which being psychology. That only makes the claims that you regularly post about others even more offensive. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
