[Python-Dev] A wart which should have been repaired in 3.0? (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sun Dec 28 11:47:46 CET 2008


Antoine Pitrou wrote:

Le dimanche 28 décembre 2008 à 16:26 +1000, Nick Coghlan a écrit :

If we're going to end up with two functions anyway, why mess with the one which is already there and in use for real programs? Well, agreed. I was just hoping we could get away with "fixing" the existing function and voilà :)

I'm all for breaking backwards compatibility when it allows some genuine improvements that would otherwise be impossible, but in this particular case a little API bloat seems like the least of the available evils :)

Cheers, Nick.

-- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia



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