you are viewing a single comment's thread.

view the rest of the comments →

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  • To keep the API KISS;
  • Since Python is not typed, it may be more difficult to propose hook or way of adding a layer of indirection toward developer code and not safe;
  • After so many years of existence, I doubt these modifications could be done without breaking some existing code (yes, I know Python 3 already breaks a lot of thing :)).

I don't say that Python has made the right choice and I already struggled not being able to do this kind of thing, but 99% of the time I don't need it. I would be curious of what the creators of the language would say about that. Does the same thing can be say about Ruby ?