From: Michael Campbell <michael_s_campbell@...>
Date: 2002-09-07T05:09:37+09:00
Subject: RE: Larry Wall's comments on Ruby

> But this is all beside the point -- Larry's off the mark
> in suggesting that an inconsistency is preferable for any reason. I
> contend that that attitude is just plain wrong.  It's better to
> be consistent -- even if that consistency is towards something
> new and unfamiliar -- than to introduce exceptional cases that
> the user (at any level) has to carry around.

I agree here too in this context, but I have to put in a quote I'm
rather fond of...

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. -- Oscar Wilde

=)


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