Re: Python Design Principles

2005-09-10 Thread Fredrik Lundh
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote: > After all, the fact that Python is not strongly typed and is > interpreted rather than compiled if you think those are facts, you don't understand how Python works. (hint: Python's both strongly typed *and* compiled) > sacrificing programmer producitivity the abili

Re: Python Design Principles

2005-09-09 Thread Neal Norwitz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > But I am still puzzled by the argument that has been given for why > methods that operate on mutable types should return None, namely, that > the designers of python didn't want the users to shoot themselves in > the foot by thinking a method simply returned a result an