Well, the Python and Ruby communities have different engineering cultures and this is part of that. "Explicit is better than implicit" is one of the mantras on

Well, the Python and Ruby communities have different engineering cultures and this is part of that. "Explicit is better than implicit" is one of the mantras on the Python side. http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/ http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/