[Ben Hoyt] > I was emailing someone today about implementing something (for PEP > 471, as it happens) and wanted to link to the Zen of Python [1] and > note a particular clause (in this case "If the implementation is hard > to explain, it's a bad idea."). However, there are no clause numbers, > so you can't refer to specific phrases. > > I know it's a short enough document that it probably doesn't matter. > And maybe numbering them would make it less Zen. Would be handy in > code reviews and the like, for example: "Not very Pythonic. See PEP 20 > point 5." Is it just my pedantic self, or have others wanted to do > this too? > > [1] http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/
See Revelation 22:18. Adding numbers is how heresy begins ;-) http://biblehub.com/revelation/22-18.htm _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
