You must be misunderstanding. The root problem is that people (rightly) complain that the language changes too much. And you want to "fix" this by adding a deep and fundamental change to the language? What planet are you from? It reminds me of Jini, which was presented as a new standard to address the problem of too many conflicting standard. Get it? :-)
--Guido On 7/14/06, Boris Borcic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Guido van Rossum wrote: > ... > > > > This is an illustration of the dilemma of maintaining a popular > > language: Everybody hates change (me too!) but everybody also has one > > thing that's bothering them so much they absolutely want it to be > > changed. If you were to implement all those personal pet peeves, you'd > > get a language that's more different from Python than Python is from > > Fortran. > > > > So where's the middle ground? > > I feel some freedom could be reclaimed with a solution in the spirit of Turing > equivalence. Or, to take a less grandiose comparison, web style sheets - > separation of content and presentation. > > Suppose the standard required a (possibly empty) style-defining file prefix > that > constrains the python source code in the file, and concurrently defined > (mostly) > reversible and transparent source-to-source transforms that would map any > source > code file to an equivalent source code file with an arbitrary chosen prefix. > Then users could chose their style of Python and either transform all source > files they install to their own style, or setup their editor to do it > back-and-forth for them. The choice of python presentation style would then > become a private choice. > > To illustrate the idea, this already exists in very embryonic form with > unicode > encoding modelines. The current standard allows to imagine a Python editor > that > would permit to set a "local standard encoding modeline" and then present any > source file as if it had been written while taking maximal profit from the > chosen encoding. Which may also be simple ascii. > > Cheers, BB > -- > "C++ is a contradiction in terms" - Lorentz, Einstein, Poincaré > > _______________________________________________ > 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/guido%40python.org > -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ 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
