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by lonelappde 2327 days ago
If you write code that doesn't work in 3.5, you should check the version at startup and exit
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Yes, that would be a good idea. But if you ever run scripts you didn’t write, there’s the potential people didn’t do this, and you have the potential for hard to discover bugs. The language should be designed such that bugs are difficult to encounter, this is an instance where it wasn’t.