[Python-Dev] [PATCH] Adding braces to future (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Sat Dec 10 17:06:57 CET 2011

On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 4:15 AM, Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au>wrote:

Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> writes:

> On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Cedric Sodhi <manday at gmx.net> wrote: > > > IF YOU THINK YOU MUST REPLY SOMETHING WITTY, ITERATE THAT THIS HAD > > BEEN DISCUSSED BEFORE, REPLY THAT "IT'S SIMPLY NOT GO'NNA HAPPEN", > > THAT "WHO DOESN'T LIKE IT IS FREE TO CHOOSE ANOTHER LANGUAGE" OR > > SOMETHING SIMILAR, JUST DON'T. > > Every single response in this thread so far has ignored this request. The request was completely unreasonable. Cedric does not get to unilaterally set restrictions on who and how people respond to a screed in a public forum.

Oh, of course. I was just playing along. But my real point was to berate the community for responding at all to such an obvious trolling post.

> the rest I have to say about the topic would violate the above > request.

You have my permission to violate the above request. That should have at least as much authority as the request itself, so you are hereby empowered to respond as you like.

It would be utterly redundant. He said it all in his all-caps message.

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