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For review: PEP 308 - If-then-else expression

Dale Strickland-Clark dale at riverhall.NOTHANKS.co.uk
Sun Feb 9 05:19:50 EST 2003 
Anthony Baxter <anthony at interlink.com.au> wrote:

>
>>>> Dale Strickland-Clark wrote
>> >I'm prejudiced against change, and proud of it.  Not to the extent of
>> >opposing all change without consideration, but my default opinion of
>> >any change is "no thanks" and the merits of any change have to
>> >overcome that.
>> 
>> Then you are against language development. Why not just take your
>> current download of Python and leave?
>
>Michael didn't say that. He said that any change had to overcome a
>builtin prejudice against change.
>
>As far as "why doesn't he take his download and leave" - well, if he did
>that, the community would be the poorer, as he's one of the harder
>working members of the python-dev team. Aside from abuse, what have
>you contributed to the community?
>
>> One of the beauties of Python is the way it is growing and evolving.
>
>No. One of the beauties about Python is that it's growth and evolution
>is careful and considered. If I wanted to use a language with everything
>and the kitchen sink thrown in, I'd use Perl, or C++. Python's change
>is deliberately cautious.
>
>> in current parlance. Or the same after the proposal. Not a good
>> example. Are you paid by the code-line?
>
>Do you have to resort to abuse in every post you make?

Please get your attributions right and take the time to understand my
argument before arguing against a point I didn't make.
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Dale Strickland-Clark
Riverhall Systems Ltd
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