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

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

Fred L. Drake, Jr. fdrake at acm.org
Mon Mar 8 16:37:42 EST 2004


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?

-Fred

-- Fred L. Drake, Jr. PythonLabs at Zope Corporation



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