Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed1.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.007 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.99; '*S*': 0.00; ';-)': 0.03; 'causing': 0.04; 'ascii': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'subject:method': 0.09; 'jan': 0.12; 'fancy': 0.16; 'parentheses': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'reedy': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'wed,': 0.18; 'cheap': 0.19; '>>>': 0.22; 'aug': 0.22; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.23; 'unicode': 0.24; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.27; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'am,': 0.29; 'especially': 0.30; 'retire': 0.31; 'more,': 0.35; 'subject:?': 0.36; 'rich': 0.38; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'list,': 0.38; 'received:71': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'enough': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'even': 0.60; 'skip:u 10': 0.60; 'personal': 0.63; 'soon': 0.63; 'buying': 0.65; 'news': 0.67; 'price': 0.69; 'miss': 0.74; 'received:fios.verizon.net': 0.84; 'subject:Making': 0.84; 'edwards': 0.91 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Terry Reedy Subject: Re: Making every no-arg method a property? Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2014 15:04:46 -0400 References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pool-71-175-90-87.phlapa.fios.verizon.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 20 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1407351916 news.xs4all.nl 2861 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:37304 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:75810 On 8/6/2014 6:09 AM, alister wrote: > On Wed, 06 Aug 2014 10:34:04 +1200, Gregory Ewing wrote: > >> Grant Edwards wrote: >>> Did I miss a news story? Have the parentesis mines all exploded >>> causing the price of parenthesis to skyrocket? >> >> The Unicode Consortium has been secretly buying them up for some time >> now. Pretty soon you won't be able to get cheap ASCII parentheses any >> more, only the fancy high-priced ones like U+2045/U+2046, U+2772/U+2773 >> and U+27E6/U+27E7. > > Perhaps that will make JMF rich enough to retire ;-) Gratuitous personal digs are disrespectful and out of place on this list, especially when the target has not even participated in the thread. -- Terry Jan Reedy