On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 8:26 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > I don't think moralist arguments should have a weight when deciding > which features we add. If developers want to introduce bugs or > limitations in their software they will always be able to do it.
Actually when designing language features or APIs, what you call "moralist arguments" take place all the time. Personally I don't think there's anything "moral" about wanting to design an API that reduces common mistakes, and API design should always take expected behavior of programmers into account. Experienced developers have a huge store of information about that in their head. Anyway, even before the word "moralist" was used this thread would have been better on python-ideas. -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) _______________________________________________ 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
