"OKB (not okblacke)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ben Finney wrote: > > If your revision control system is so inconvenient to use that > > you'd rather have large blocks of commented-out code, it's time to > > start using a better RCS -- perhaps a distributed one, so you can > > commit to your own local repository with abandon while trying out > > changes. > > I don't buy this kind of argument. It seems strange to say > that the language is designed a certain way because users are > expected to use certain kinds of third-party tools to manage their > code.
You're reading a causal relationship where none was asserted. > What if I'm just putting together a little script to do something > and I don't want to mess with a revision control system? If it's so little, why are single-line comments not enough? If it's large enough that large blocks of code need changing frequently, I assert revision control is needed. The barriers to using a good revision control system are so low these days it's poor practice to avoid using one for anything but throw-away programs. -- \ "The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot | `\ read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn." | _o__) -- Alvin Toffler | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
