Terry Reedy wrote: > "Guido van Rossum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message >>- Going from statement to function? > > > Minor. For quickly adding debug prints, two extra ()s are a small burden, > but if the function were called 'out', then there would still be just five > keystrokes. Nick's output() convinced me that there are compensations to > the function form. Besides, having used the argument of aesthetic > consistency elsewhere, I can hardly deny it to you ;-).
I've added a bit to the wiki to look at different names that have been suggested. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Brisbane, Australia --------------------------------------------------------------- http://boredomandlaziness.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com