On Apr 10, 2006, at 6:19 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote: > Are there other proto-PEPs being worked on? I would appreciate if the > authors would send me a note (or reply here) with the URL and the > status.
I told Barry I'd work on a proto-PEP for adding symbols (global, immutable things (or, if you prefer, "names" or "dataless labels") a la Ruby's :symbol) to Py3k, but I don't yet have anything worth sharing. Symbols would be a pretty picayune addition to the language, but the Ruby folks seem to get v. good mileage out of them for metaprogramming, in projects like Rails, and in using Ruby as a host for DSLs, an area where it'd be a shame for Python to fall behind. Though if you have a strong feeling one way or the other, that would either save me some time working on something that hasn't a chance or motivate me to finish something that might. :> Cheers, Kendall Clark _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
