Op 2005-09-30, Steve Holden schreef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Antoon Pardon wrote: >> Op 2005-09-30, Steve Holden schreef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >>>Antoon Pardon wrote: >>> >>>>Op 2005-09-29, Bill Mill schreef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>>> >>>> >>>>>But, if your users can't figure out that they shouldn't be changing >>>>>the variable called t._test__i without expecting side effects, what do >>>>>you think of the users of your class? >>>>> >>>>>Python is for consenting adults. >>>> >>>> >>>>No it is not. Consenting means you had the choice. Python doesn't >>>>give you the choice not to consent. Unless of course you write >>>>it as a C-extension, then you can hide all you want. >>>> >>> >>>Good grief, the ultimate choice is to use Python because you like it, or >>>not to use it because you don't. Enough with the picking every available >>>nit, please. Consent or stop complaining :-) >> >> >> This is IMO not a nit. IMO people are redefining words. We are also >> talking within a certain context. When people use this slogan, they >> don't mean that people have the choice to not use python. >> > Quite true, but people do none the less have that choice. Some days I > wish a few more would exercise it.
Yes they have that choice and the problem is that if too many make that choice, python wouldn't evolve. A lot of progress python made, is because people who didn't like some aspects of it, discussed them and either implemeted a change themselves or got someone else interested enough to implement a change. -- Antoon Pardon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
