Op 2005-11-15, Bengt Richter schreef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 15 Nov 2005 08:51:59 GMT, Antoon Pardon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Op 2005-11-14, Bengt Richter schreef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [...] >>> You may be interested in reviewing >>> >>> >>> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/f96b496b6ef14e2/32d3539e928986b3 >>> >>> before continuing this topic ;-) >> >>It is a rather long thread. You want to avoid this one becomes of >>comparable length? > Not necessarily. I just thought it might help in making new discussions > of previously discussed ideas clearer faster ;-)
Well I hope you are right. But I must confess I skimmed a number of articles, there were just too many, to read them all in such a short times. > Sometimes rehashing old topics seems just tedious, but sometimes someone > has a hunch that they are struggling to express, and they haven't yet > succeeded > in communicating its essence. Then old discussions can sometimes serve > like first drafts of a speech, and revisions can prevent repeat of > misunderstandings > that in the archived discussions one can see were inevitable. > If the nascent idea comes out viable, we all benefit, and the tedium will > have been > worth it. If not, well, then at least some ideas will have clearer form, and > the whole process will have been a social event that some will have enjoyed > anyway ;-) Well I certainly support that idea. -- Antoon Pardon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
