<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 12:09 PM, Russell Jones <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:russell.jones@physics.ox.ac.uk" target="_blank">russell.jones@physics.ox.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Python has a concept of
"we're all consenting adults here"</blockquote></div><br>Who deposed Guido? Python's usual concept is "This Is The One True Way and we reserve the right to mock you for writing Perl in Python and then make what you did an error". (And I've seen it in action far too many times. It's fine to have standards, but *lose the attitude*.)</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">That said, you don't have the module namespace conflated that badly with the variable namespace in Java, Perl, C, Haskell, ... and I *really* dislike "spooky action at a distance" in languages.<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates</div><div><a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a> <a href="mailto:ballbery@sinenomine.net" target="_blank">ballbery@sinenomine.net</a></div><div>unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad <a href="http://sinenomine.net" target="_blank">http://sinenomine.net</a></div></div></div>
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