On 2011-08-17, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 12:49 AM, Seebs <usenet-nos...@seebs.net> wrote: >> Yes, but is it a *significant* cost? ?My assumption is that the suppression >> would be of checking, not just of displaying messages.
> It mightn't be very significant, but there'd still be some cost. > However, IMHO the greatest cost is the spamminess; forcing the user to > deal with lines and lines of warnings is not a useful way to design a > language. Lines and lines? I'd say if it's to be allowed to shadow built-ins (and I'm not sure that's a good thing at all), you'd still be looking at one warning per shadowing, which shouldn't be too many. -s -- Copyright 2011, all wrongs reversed. Peter Seebach / usenet-nos...@seebs.net http://www.seebs.net/log/ <-- lawsuits, religion, and funny pictures http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Game_(Scientology) <-- get educated! I am not speaking for my employer, although they do rent some of my opinions. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
