Fuzzyman wrote: > Steve Holden wrote: [...] >> >>The pursuit of orthogonality, while admirable, can lead to insanity if >>pushed too far. >> > > > Sure - feel free to venture as far down the road of insanity as you > like :-) To pursue your analogy, why don't we answer all usenet posts > by pushing suggestions to ridiculous levels ? ;-) > Right, and publish cartoons of Larry Wall where his hat is a bomb. Then the perlmongers will burn the Googleplex down?
> What would actually be the problem with allowing modules to define a > __call__ though ? This would allow for nice clean namespaces at the > module level. > What's clean about defining __call__() and calling the module name rather than defining functions and calling them? Why should one specific function in a module be promoted to this special status? How many modules have precisely one function? > Ok, so there are other ways of doing it - but it's not at all > illogical. > I was merely trying to suggest that just because something *can* be done doesn't mean it *should* be done. Perhaps I went a little over the top. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC www.holdenweb.com PyCon TX 2006 www.python.org/pycon/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
