Christian Heimes wrote:
Alan G Isaac wrote:
On 10/16/2009 5:03 PM, Christian Heimes wrote:
It's not going to happen.
That's a prediction, not a justification.
It's not a prediction, it's a statement. It's not going to happend
because it violates Guido's gut feeling as well as the Zen of Python.
I'm not sure how it violates ZoP...particularly
Simple is better than complex.
[complex is special casing or explaining why there's an error]
Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules.
[raising an error is a special case]
Although practicality beats purity.
In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess.
[there's nothing ambiguous about sum() meaning "+"]
If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a good idea.
[sum(lst_of_strs) should do exactly what it says..."+" 'em]
-tkc
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