Re: [Python-Dev] Propose to reject PEP 336 -- Make None Callable

2005-06-17 Thread Tim Peters
[Raymond Hettinger] > After nine months, no support has grown beyond the original poster. Never will, either -- even Roman numeral literals are more Pythonic than this one. More Pythonic: make integers callable: i(arglist) returns the i'th argument. So, e.g., people who find it inconvenient to

Re: [Python-Dev] Propose to reject PEP 336 -- Make None Callable

2005-06-17 Thread Guido van Rossum
Yes please. That one will never get past me as long as I'm alive. (At PyCon I met one person who proposed an even more radical approach; I think he wanted getattr(None, ) to return None. But he was certified insane. :-) On 6/17/05, Barry Warsaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 0

Re: [Python-Dev] Propose to reject PEP 336 -- Make None Callable

2005-06-17 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 02:55, Raymond Hettinger wrote: > After nine months, no support has grown beyond the original poster. The > PEP did however generate some negative responses when brought-up on > comp.lang.python (it made some people's stomach churn). > > The PEP fails the tests of obviousnes