On Fri, 01 Jul 2005 19:15:46 -0700, Erik Max Francis wrote: > Sean McIlroy wrote: > >> if that's the case then list >> comprehensions and/or "first class functions" are likely to be the next >> target. > > Slippery slope arguments are logical fallacies, you know.
Not if you are actually standing on a slippery slope. But seriously, no, they aren't. The slippery slope argument is _not_ "X is happening now, so Y will happen no matter what we do". That would be a fallacy. The argument is actually "X is happening now. If X continues to happen into the future, Y is the logical consequence of that process. If we wish to avoid Y, we must stop X". And that is not a fallacy in general (although of course it could be, if there is no causal relationship between X and Y). In this particular case, I suspect Sean is wrong. Guido seems to like list comprehensions. Unless I'm mistaken (not for the first time) I think he actually introduced them to the language. They won't be going anywhere anytime soon. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
