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

Jeremy Hylton jeremy@zope.com
Fri, 22 Mar 2002 11:42:41 -0500

"GvR" == Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> writes:

TM> The argument for the former is: TM> (1) KISS and YAGNI

GvR> [Jeremy]

I've said my piece for the most part, but this YAGNI stuff bugs me.

GvR> Then let me explain it some more. This logger module is not GvR> just for Zope, it's for all Python users. It's clear that for GvR> 99% of the uses, this is a case of YAGNI.

This really isn't about YAGNI then. It's about some customers' needs being too complex to handle in the standard library.

Jeremy