[Python-Dev] PEP 318 restrictions on elements (original) (raw)

[Python-Dev] PEP 318 - generality of list; restrictions on elements

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Wed Mar 10 06:33:02 EST 2004

On Mon, Mar 08, 2004, Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:

On Monday 08 March 2004 04:00 pm, Aahz wrote:

Principle of least surprise, essentially. There are already going to be enough obscure uses for this; let's try to keep the completely whacky out of it. You'll have to come up with an awfully convincing use case to change my mind. I'd be very surprised if the interpreter cared that a decorator returned a callable; what should it care?

The interpreter doesn't care; people care. That's precisely why it should be a documented requirement.

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