bartc wrote:
Anyway, my Python 3.4 comprises 5000 files in around 90MB. Minimalism hasn't really worked.
Most of that is standard library code, not part of the core language.
Well, named constants are just such literals, but with a name. The design of Python however means that that immediately causes a difficult because then we have to deal with different scopes, name lookups, and named constants defined inside a module or class so requiring an attribute lookup.
This is the kind of interaction between features that makes extending the core language much more difficult than adding library features. The latter is mostly a linear process, but interactions between core language features tends to grow exponentially. -- Greg -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
