"Antoon Pardon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I'll clarify. A lot of the time I hear arguments against > features that boils down to. > > 1) I don't need it. > > 2) Having the feature will make my job more difficult. > > 3) I don't understand the merrits of the feature or I > have difficulty understanding what it does when I > encounter it. > > IMO these are arguments if followed sufficiently will lead to > a language that is only usefull for mediocre programmers.
True. But these arguments did not stop expert-level features like metaclasses, decorators, and (in 2.5) context-management blocks (with-blocks). TJR -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list