On Feb 1, 2008 5:18 PM, Raymond Hettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You should have been there when this was decided about two years ago. > > IIRC, the decision was a general one about cross-type > comparisons not being turned-on the default. I do not > recall a specific discussion about None.
I vaguely recall it was discussed but not considered an important enough use case. > Also, the list at the time was flooded with propositions > ranging from the reasonable to the insane. It was not always > possible to know what to respond to or the implications of each > choice. I sure wasn't aware that those conversations were to be > immediately frozen in stone. Not immediately. But by now we've had two alpha release already. Some stuff *does* change between alphas. But in general we need to stem the flow of change proposals. > I had thought one of the purposes > of the Py3.0 was so that we could download it and explore the > implications of all of these choices. I've done so and bumped > into the None comparability issue several times. I think you need to provide a lot more motivation than a 5-line email to change something this fundamental at this point. > If you no > longer want feedback, that's fine. I can bring my > experimentation with the 3.0 alpha to a close. To be brutally honest, your recent attempts to open up various closed issues have wasted a lot of cycles everywhere. I'd rather focus on moving forward with things like UserDict. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
