Dear Carol, I apologize for letting my frustration show in this way, in a public forum.
André On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 1:01 PM Carol Willing < willi...@willingconsulting.com> wrote: > Hi Andre, > > I'm sorry that you did not like my response when I was triaging all of the > open Turtle issues. > > I am happy to change the status back to open. All that you needed to do > was ask politely and give me a chance, as a volunteer, to have the time to > do so. > > Regards, > > Carol > > On Jun 17, 2018, at 1:41 PM, Andre Roberge <andre.robe...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > So, a little over 3 years after I submitted a bug report (see previous > conversation below) **with a fix** so that no one would have to explain why > "right()" could result in a turtle turning left, and vice-versa, my > submission was refused and the bug report was closed with the following > explanation: > > " > > I'm closing this issue since introducing this suggested change would impact > teaching materials and resources that have already been published. This would > be a change that would break compatibility. > > " > > I'm curious: does anyone on the edu-sig list has written teaching material > for the turtle module that sets world coordinates such that left and right > are reversed? If so, how do you explain it to students? > > > Rant: This is the third time that I submit either a bug report for cPython > **with** a proposed fix, or simply a fix for an existing bug report and that > it is either rejected or dismissed with no alternative solution proposed. > Thankfully, the folks here on edu-sig have been much more supportive since I > joined, almost 15 years ago. /rant > > > André > > > On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 12:48 PM Andre Roberge <andre.robe...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> >> >> On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 8:52 AM, Jurgis Pralgauskis < >> jurgis.pralgaus...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> usually in computer graphics Y is counted to increase downwards. >>> I casn do it with: setworldcoordinates(0, 400, 600, 0) >>> >>> but then, "right(..)" turns to the left :/ >>> >>> >>> I could swap: >>> right, left = left, right >>> >>> but on errror I get a bit misleading message >>> >>> >>> right() >>> Traceback (most recent call last): >>> File "<pyshell#10>", line 1, in <module> >>> right() >>> TypeError: left() takes exactly 1 argument (0 given) >>> >>> I thought to make this hack for kids, so better clearer error msgs... >>> >> >>> Any Ideas? >>> >> >> http://bugs.python.org/issue23660 (includes a proposed "permanent" >> fix). >> >> André >> >> >> >>> Thanks :) >>> -- >>> Jurgis Pralgauskis >>> tel: 8-616 77613; >>> Don't worry, be happy and make things better ;) >>> http://galvosukykla.lt >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Edu-sig mailing list >>> Edu-sig@python.org >>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ > Edu-sig mailing list > Edu-sig@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig > > >
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