On Thu, 2010-09-23 at 12:00 +0200, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker wrote:
This is because the python prompt is just a REPL and they are just objects that stringify to the text and do their thing when called as a function. The reason license needs to be called as a function is that it's so long it needs a pager. Would you prefer objects that had magic side effects on stringification, like this?
That's an excellent _excuse_ for why the software is crap, which doesn't in any way prevent the software from being crap. So it doesn't help then. Cheers, Martin
