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Mark Janssen wrote:
> 1) It tried to make Object the parent of every class.  No one's close
> enough to God to make that work.
> 2) It didn't make dicts inherit from sets when they were added to Python.
> 3) It used the set literal for dict, so that there's no obvious way to
> do it.  This didn't get changed in Py3k.
> 4?) It allowed [reference] variables to be used as dict keys.  This
> creates a parsing difficulty for me, mentally.  Keys should be direct,
> hashable values, not hidden in a variable name.

What do you mean by 4? Do you mean that keys should only be hardcoded?
I am going to assume you meant something different, as that sounds like
a terrible idea to me...

> 
> A few of the top of the head....
> 
> Mark

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