[Python-Dev] PEP 214, extended print statement (original) (raw)

Tim Peters tim_one@email.msn.com
Thu, 17 Aug 2000 13:58:25 -0400

>>>>> "TW" == Thomas Wouters <thomas@xs4all.net> writes:

TW> Really ? Hmmmm... TW> [Tim Peters] >> Me too! +1 on changing ">>" to "to" here. Then we can >> introduce TW> I guessed I missed the sarcasm ;-P

[Barry A. Warsaw]

No, Tim just forgot to twist the blue knob while he was pressing the shiny pedal on Guido's time machine. I've made the same mistake myself before -- the VRTM can be as inscrutable as the BDFL himself at times. Sadly, changing those opinions now would cause an irreparable time paradox, the outcome of which would force Python to be called Bacon and require you to type `albatross' instead of colons to start every block.

good-thing-tim-had-the-nose-plugs-in-or-Python-would-only-work-on- 19-bit-architectures-ly y'rs,

I have no idea what this is about. I see an old msg from Barry voting "-1" on changing ">>" to "to", but don't believe any such suggestion was ever made. And I'm sure that had such a suggestion ever been made, it would have been voted down at once by everyone.

OTOH, there is some evidence that an amateur went mucking with the time machine! No 19-bit architectures, but somewhere in a reality distortion field around Vancouver, it appears that AIX actually survived long enough to see the 64-bit world, and that some yahoo vendor decided to make a version of C where sizeof(void*) > sizeof(long). There's no way either of those could have happened naturally.

even-worse-i-woke-up-today-old!-ly y'rs - tim