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What title would you like ? What's exactly hyped ?
by ionelm 12y ago
What title would you like ? What's exactly hyped ?
- raldi 12y ago"The most underrated feature" is total hype. It's exactly the sort of thing the Guidelines link at the bottom of every HN page says to remove. Maybe, "Python 3 exception-handling improvement."
- captainmuon 12y agoHmm, it's just a figure of speach. "The most underrated feature" -> "I really like this feature and think it deserves more attention." Just like "the best programming language ever" -> "a programming language I am really excited about, that fits my needs very well". The hyperbole is not the problem IMO, it's the nondescriptiveness. I think the title should have something about exception handling in it. The enforcement of the Guidelines has been pretty arbitrary, and quite often good (editorialized) titles have been turned back into something nondescript. Or now the other way around, the original title is editorialized to be less interesting. I think the most important criteria for a title are: does it get across the topic of the link, and the target page author's intention?
- jordigh 12y agoYeah, I agree. The title is total linkbait. It's like "5 Python Features You Must Use Now" or something.
- rplnt 12y agoOr even better "blah blah you don't know about!"
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- mzs 12y agoImplicit Exception Chaining in Python 3.0