On Thursday, September 6, 2018 at 6:51:12 PM UTC+2, Ethan Furman wrote: > > On 09/06/2018 07:05 AM, Anders Hovmöller wrote: > > On Thursday, September 6, 2018 at 3:11:46 PM UTC+2, Steven D'Aprano > wrote: > >> On Thu, Sep 06, 2018 at 12:15:46PM +0200, Anders Hovmöller wrote: > > >>> Wouldn't it be awesome if [...] > >> > >> No. > > > > Heh. I did expect the first mail to be uncivil :P > > Direct disagreement is not uncivil, just direct. You asked a yes/no > question and got a yes/no answer. >
It's a rhetorical question in a PR sense, not an actual yes/no question. > D'Aprano's > comments further down are also not uncivil, just explicative (not > expletive ;) ) of his position. > > As for your proposal, I agree with D'Aprano -- this is a lot machinery to > support a use-case that doesn't feel > compelling to me, and I do tend to name my variables the same when I can. > It's not a lot of machinery. It's super tiny. Look at my implementation. Generally these arguments against sound like the arguments against f-strings to me. I personally think f-strings are the one of the best things to happen to python in at least a decade, I don't know if people on this list agree?
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