On Monday, July 25, 2016 at 2:54:17 PM UTC+1, rjf wrote: > > I found this > https://docs.python.org/3/howto/pyporting.html > Which says that, in spite of various tools, you might have to rewrite code > "manually". > > If you write code in Python 2.x and it has to be changed to run in Python > 2.y and then > again in Python 3, then that counts as a bad mark against Python, in my > opinion. > What is your opinion? What part of the culture am I missing? >
IMHO fully backward-compatible languages are a minority; e.g. Fortran and C are not. Maybe from the CL ivory tower things look differently, though. > > Given the occasional use of arithmetic in Sage, it would seem to be a > issue to > redefine "/" . > R > > > > On Sunday, July 24, 2016 at 9:14:17 PM UTC-7, William wrote: >> >> On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 9:07 PM, rjf <fat...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Maybe flamebait .. see below. >> >> No -- it seems that you might be a little ignorant about the culture >> and development of Python. You might try a google search for >> >> python2 python3 >> >> >> >> -- >> William (http://wstein.org) >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
