Hi, I read something funny on the python ML
<snip> request <snip>... but the syntax-sugar difference is small enough to make it no big deal, anyway. comp.lang.python's volume has (I'd guess) a 20%-30% component of "suggestions for alleged improvements to the Python language" (in all flavors, most often "criticisms for alleged warts" and the like) that invariably repeat discussions held dozens of times over the years, add absolutely nothing, and whose only result is making many old-time posters eventually drop the group in sheer boredom -- Guido being an example, and far from the only one. Of course, it says a lot about the proponents/complainants (and indirectly about the quality of the changes they propose or whine or flame about) that they can't be bothered to use Google for a while first to find out that their pet change has been proposed a zillion times before and read up on the discussions. If Python adopted even half of those interminably-repeated requests for redundant feechurs, it would rapidly become as rich, complicated and unwieldy as any other language you could name, thereby losing one of its main sources of strength. ... </snip> sounds familiar :-) _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
