10 years feels like a simultaneously long and arbitrary limit. IMO a policy of "try to avoid major language features for a while" would work better.
On Mon, May 7, 2018 at 2:11 PM Craig Rodrigues <rodr...@crodrigues.org> wrote: > > > On Sun, May 6, 2018 at 7:35 PM Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> I'm inclined to agree that a Python 3.8 PEP in the spirit of the PEP 3003 >> language moratorium could be a very good idea. Between matrix >> multiplication, enhanced tuple unpacking, native coroutines, f-strings, and >> type hinting for variable assignments, we've had quite a bit of syntactic >> churn in the past few releases, and the rest of the ecosystem really hasn't >> caught up on it all yet (and that's not just other implementations - it's >> training material, online courses, etc, etc). >> >> If we're going to take such a step, now's also the time to do it, since >> 3.8 feature development is only just getting under way, and if we did >> decide to repeat the language moratorium, we could co-announce it with the >> Python 3.7 release. >> >> > Would it be reasonable to request a 10 year moratorium on making changes > to the core Python language, > and for the next 10 years only focus on things that do not require core > language changes, > such as improving/bugfixing existing libraries, writing new libraries, > improving tooling, improving infrastructure (PyPI), > improving performance, etc., etc.? > > There are still many companies still stuck on Python 2, so giving 10 years > of breathing room > for these companies to catch up to Python 3 core language, even past 2020 > would be very helpful. > > -- > Craig > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/rymg19%40gmail.com > -- Ryan (ライアン) Yoko Shimomura, ryo (supercell/EGOIST), Hiroyuki Sawano >> everyone else https://refi64.com/
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