[Kay Schluehr] >> The discourse about Python3000 has shrunken from the expectation >> of the "next big thing" into a depressive rhetorics of feature >> elimination. The language doesn't seem to become deeper, smaller >> and more powerfull but just smaller. [Guido] > There is much focus on removing things, because we want to be able > to add new stuff but we don't want the language to grow.
ISTM that a major reason that the Python 3.0 discussion seems focused more on removal than addition is that a lot of addition can be (and is being) done in Python 2.x. This is a huge benefit, of course, since people can start doing things the "new and improved" way in 2.x, even though it's not until 3.0 that the "old and evil" ;) way is actually removed. Removal of map/filter/reduce is an example - there isn't discussion about addition of new features, because list comps/gen expressions are already here... =Tony.Meyer _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com