> Now Python is evolving into Python 3000. Will a valid Python program be a > valid > Python 3000 program? This is important.
At Vancouver Python workshop this summer, Guido talked about this very point. He mentioned two extreme examples: the current committe work on C++, and Perl 6. C++ is trying *very* hard to remain backwards compatible, while Perl 6 is not. He says he wants Python 3000 to be somewhere in the middle. So source compatibility isn't planned, but migration tools are planned. David Mertz's gives more details in a summary of one of Guido's talks (from OSCON): http://www-03.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/davidmertz?entry=second_day_python_3000 For the kind of simple programs that appear in beginning programming courses, I expect around 100% of the code to be trivially convertible. Toby -- Dr. Toby Donaldson School of Computing Science Simon Fraser University (Surrey) _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
