"Terry Reedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My only point was that Sussman is an odd person to be criticizing > (somewhat mistakingly) Python for being minimalist.
I think that being a language minimalist is very different from believing that there should be exactly one obvious way to do everything. For instance, I believe that Python is now too big, and that much of what is in the language itself should be replaced with more general Scheme-like features. Then a good macro mechanism should be implemented so that all the conveniences features of the language can be implemented via macro definitions in the standard library. Macros, however, are typically claimed in these parts to violate the "only one way" manifesto. |>oug -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
