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

Gordon McMillan gmcm@hypernet.com
Fri, 22 Mar 2002 12:47:18 -0500

On 22 Mar 2002 at 12:03, Guido van Rossum wrote:

[beating up Jeremy for being, em, unusual :-)]

Why isn't that YAGNI? To me it feels like this is YAGNI for most users; we're designing a library module here, not a Zope component.

I'd be happy to find a different principle with a catchy name (maybe the 80% principle or KISS are better) but I still think your use case is pretty unusual.

It doesn't take something as complex as Zope to want many of these features. I end up doing most of them (from scratch each time, of course - getting a round wheel out of linear code is a matter of successive approximation, which, fortunately, Python makes enjoyable) in any long-running server I write. Which is more than a few.

I suspect that the people who are going to want it are under-represented in your sample of "users". System / application developers rarely get involved in language issues unless they're congenitally obnoxious <0.9 wink>.

-- Gordon http://www.mcmillan-inc.com/