[Python-Dev] Re: PEP 282 comments (original) (raw)

Tim Peters tim.one@comcast.net
Fri, 22 Mar 2002 01:00:37 -0500

[Jeremy]

... Now, KISS is different. It may be that the kinds of things that Kevin and I are trying to do are so unusual that no one else will ever do it. By this argument, supporting a few cases from oddball customers makes your code harder to understand and maintain; perhaps other users will find the interface confusing because of the extra features.

Just because Guido and Trent think Zope is extreme doesn't mean you should run off arguing to get rid of floats, complexes, Unicode, weakrefs, rotor, imp, curses, posixfile, gopherlib, xdrlib, mailcap and Macintosh support.

can't-decide-whether-i'm-winking-ly y'rs - tim