[Python-Dev] Python Style Sheets ? Re: User's complaints (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Tue Jul 18 19:04:32 CEST 2006

On 7/17/06, Boris Borcic <bborcic at gmail.com> wrote:

Guido van Rossum wrote: > You must be misunderstanding.

I don't think so. You appeared to say that the language changes too much because everyone wants different changes - that accumulate. I suggested a mechanism allowing people to see only the changes they want - or none at all - might be devised.

Oh, but don't fool yourself into thinking that that's not a language change -- and an extremely drastic one at that. Nobody will be able to read other people's source code any more without first applying the conversion tool -- which is kind of painful when you're confronted with a code snippet in email or a book, for example.

Let me rephrase that. I don't believe your proposal solves that problem, and I don't think it's a good idea for other reasons. Am I clear now? :-)

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

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