On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 2:57 PM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote:
> If you dislike adding features to a language on the basis that it > makes the language harder to learn, remember that you instead force > one of three even worse options: > > 1) Messy code because people unindent inside their source code, > creating wonky indentation (which Python usually avoids) > > 2) Forcing readers to look up the third-party module you're using > before they can understand your code > > 3) Forcing readers to look up your ad-hoc function before > understanding your code. > > All of these make it harder to understand your code, specifically > BECAUSE the language doesn't have the requisite feature. Well-written > language features are good, not bad, for readability. > > A well designed language has a small core, and large libraries. Please don't make Python into a big language. Almost anytime you can do something in a library instead of in the core language, it's better to do it in a library. Looking things up in a library isn't onerous. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
