If I was the list moderator, at this point I would put the thread on a "cooling off" timeout for 8-16 hours. Both of you seem to be mainly complaining about each other's interaction style rather than adding anything of substance.
Then again neither am I so why am I even writing this. :-) On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 5:51 PM Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 10:36 AM Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> > wrote: > > > > On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 12:16:16PM +1100, Chris Angelico wrote: > > > > > Please explain how it's "spooky action at a distance" if it's a > > > self-contained assignment statement? > > > > "Spooky action at a distance" is your phrase, not mine, or Rob's. > > > > (I think David Mertz may have used it first, but I don't have to justify > > his choice of wording or agree with it.) > > I don't remember who it was, but I was responding to that exact > phrase, and you jumped on me and said that my response wasn't a > response for reasons. So you were arguing in support of the phrase. > > > > I know how much you love to argue, but really, this isn't productive. > > > > Are we arguing or are we trying to reach consensus on the desirable > > behaviour and syntax? > > I'm really not sure. I'm arguing in favour of all the same things that > made f-strings worth having, but from a parsing point of view. You're > saying, hey, let's have all that, only not have any of it, and I have > no idea what you're actually pushing for. I'm asking for something > that has proven to be useful and practical in other languages, and > you're saying that it wouldn't be useful or practical. Not really sure > how this works. > > ChrisA > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/FJW6SSNUEK36E5JYWZCLG4HONSHD3K5N/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ > -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) *Pronouns: he/him **(why is my pronoun here?)* <http://feministing.com/2015/02/03/how-using-they-as-a-singular-pronoun-can-change-the-world/>
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