I don't know who started this, but the PEP 418 threads have altogether too much snarkiness and not enough content. It's bad enough that we're bikeshedding so intensely; we don't need clever comebacks in triplicate to every out-of-context argument.
--Guido On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 2:26 PM, Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> wrote: > Lennart Regebro wrote: >> >> On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 00:17, Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> wrote: >>> >>> >> Good point, but the same does for using flags. If you don't pass in >> >> the MONOTONIC flag, what happens? Only reading the documentation will >> tell you. As such this, if anything, is an indication that the >> >> get_clock() API isn't ideal in any incarnation. >>> >>> >>> Gah! ALL functions are like that! How often do we see questions about >>> max() or split() etc that a close reading of the docs obviate? >> >> >> My point exactly. > > > Huh? Your point is that all APIs are less than ideal because you have to > read the docs to know for certain how they work? > > ~Ethan~ > > _______________________________________________ > 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/guido%40python.org -- --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
