Steve Holden wrote: > This would have the unfortunate side effect of only allowing changes to > Python that allowed users to do things which are currently impossible. > > Since Python is Turing-complete, this would effectively inhibit all > further changes to the language. I don't quite understand the above.
> > Would you, say, remove "for" loops because they could be written as > "while" loops. Don't forget the word "obvious" that appears in that > catchphrase ... > If every "for" usage can be done with "while" and that "while" is the preferred way, why not ? As I said, the problem is that "obvious" really is subjective in many case. And if it really is obvious, it really is obvious and I doubt there would be that much disagreement. I am a left handed and any time I use something that is designed to be right-handed, I have the same feeling too, luckily there isn't that much such thing in real life. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
