[Python-Dev] Re: def fn (args) [dec,dec]: (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Fri Aug 6 17:07:48 CEST 2004

It's not at all clear that Fredrik likes it, but he doesn't participate in Python development any more so we may never know :-(. From his blog:

> ...so someone I've never heard of added a major syntactic feature > to Python 2.4, using a syntax that Guido doesn't really > like. sorry, guys, but I liked Python better when the core > language was controlled by a single designer with a strong > intuition. the current > design-by-arguing-until-nobody-cares-anymore-committee just don't > understand what made Python's design so damn good (as the "[new > syntax] is no worse than [existing operator] meaning [something > when used with a given type]" comment clearly shows). sigh. good > thing nobody can force me to use decorators (or update to 2.4, for > that matter). time to finish my own interpreter, perhaps. or at > least start using a fresh one. Jeremy

I saw that blog entry, and was surprised, because he really did seem to like it back then. It's clear that Fredrik (a) forgot that I showed it to him, and (b) misunderstood (or worse, deliberately misconstrued) how it came checked in. I'm disappointed.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

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