[Python-Dev] cpython: Rename contextlib.ignored() to contextlib.ignore(). (original) (raw)
Alexander Belopolsky alexander.belopolsky at gmail.com
Tue Oct 15 02:52:18 CEST 2013
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On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 8:18 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
.. especially by people that expect it to work like VB's "on error resume next" rather than by suppressing the exception and resuming execution after the with statement.
"It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration."
-- Edsger W.Dijkstra, 18 June 1975, "How do we tell truths that might hurt?"
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