> Quite often the only answer is "just because". Some features are > the way they are because that's Guido's pesonal preference. Others > may disagree with him but it's his language and he gets to pick > what he thinks is best - the benign dictator syndrome.
There's also the issue that immutability is Python's way of dealing with "passing by value" and "passing by reference". And that removing the difference between mutable and immutable objects would mutate (no pun intended) the language in a big way. Hugo _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
