On Tuesday, March 27, 2018 at 11:35:31 AM UTC-5, Chris Angelico wrote: > Why are you suggesting that this is magic?
_You_ are the one who leveled the accusation that Ruby's methodology for fetching a function reference (a la): Object.method(meth-name-here) is "magic". I'm merely requesting that you defend _your_ accusation. That's all. > Yep, one of the most misunderstood lines in the zen. > "Explicit" means "stuff I like", and "implicit" means > "stuff I don't like". Or at least, that's how I see this > used. Perhaps (and unfortunately) some folks in this community interpret the zen as you claim, however, the words explicit and implicit have clear definitions, and thus, to ascribe them to personal "likes" is a miscarriage of both comprehension and objectivity. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list