> Providing you can live with adding a pair of parentheses to that, you can
> have:
>
> def print(*args):
> sys.stdout.write(' '.join(args) + '\n')
>
> I think the language would be cleaner if it lacked this weird exception for
> `print`.
Charles,
I agree that it would be cleaner. I just don't think cleanliness is
all that interesting -- usefulness trumps it every time. And if
cleanliness was the answer, there would be larger changes to make --
like removing all the syntax variations by standardizing on a common
syntax like Lisp's.
Bill
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