I wrote it and take full responsibility, did not mean to be disrespectful. Afterall, it's not what any of us are here for.
For repeated suggestions though, that were rejected once or more in the past, what are the general guidelines of answering? In this case, apart from the rejection reason, we wish to teach the newbie how to check if an idea was already suggested, else his ideas would just be rejected over and over again. Atm we don't have an index of ideas, apart from pep 3099, and I'm not sure we can make one (can we?), so I do not see a way to prevent this from happening. I bet that many ideas are repeated, we don't know it, and it therefore causes a repeated discussion with time and effort going nowhere. Just to clarify, my aim by answering it this way was to reduce the overall effort of both sides, and the attempt to reinvent the wheel. It's much like how duplicate stackoverflow questions are closed. On Mon, Mar 2, 2020, 11:58 PM Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: > Somebody wrote, in response to a newbie's idea: > >> This idea is proposed at least once a year. You're able to read past >> discussions on python-ideas for the full list of rejection reasons. >> > > This needs to go. It's unfair to the newbie, and I bet that in most > cases whoever posts this doesn't have the slightest idea on how to find the > specific rejection reason for the idea to which they're responding. I agree > that many bad ideas come up repeatedly. But unless the proposer is a > regular harasser of one of the lists, a response like this is unhelpful. > Even if an idea is bad, let's respond in a friendly way, so the OP actually > learns something about how Python is designed, or how it works, or whatever > is relevant to understanding why their idea won't fly. > > -- > --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) > *Pronouns: he/him **(why is my pronoun here?)* > <http://feministing.com/2015/02/03/how-using-they-as-a-singular-pronoun-can-change-the-world/> > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/EZMCYMLYJKOIUWXIHUHQTQ2776XZOZ3Z/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >
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