Thomas Wouters wrote: > My point isn't that it isn't archived somewhere (mailinglists, wiki, FAQ, > the minds of many, many people, not just Python developers) but that it > isn't easily findable and it isn't easily accessible in a single location.
Why would a single Wiki page not be accessible in a single location? Why is the FAQ not accessible in a single location? > I > thought PEP's where supposed to be that, and if I have a particular idea for > new syntax or new semantics, PEPs would be the place I'd look, not the FAQ > or a Wiki. Right. However, I doubt you would look in the "rejected ideas" PEP. > I guess a Wiki'd work, but then I wonder, why aren't all PEPs in > a Wiki instead? There might be several reasons - one is that a PEP is supposed to get posted to mailing lists and newsgroups, something that is not readily possible with Wiki pages. > And I would like to point out how hard it is to google or grep for ideas > like this. For instance, the 'x, y, *rest = someseq' syntax. I agree that collecting them in a single place is a good idea. Whether this is a PEP, a Wiki page, or the FAQ is nearly irrelevant, except: - it is strange to call it a "Python Enhancement Proposal" - in either the FAQ or the PEP, it will stay in its initial form forever, since nobody but the original author will edit it (that could be true of a Wiki page as well, but on a Wiki page, people *know* they are meant to edit it if they want to say something) Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ 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
