At 03:18 PM 1/16/2007 -0800, Guido van Rossum wrote: >On 1/16/07, Phillip J. Eby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The idea here being that, once 2.6 is widely-enough deployed that it can be > > assumed as a base for one's users, you can simply run the translator once, > > do any cleanup, and then have 3.0-clean code that also still runs for your > > installed base. > > > > That way, there's no chasm to leap; just a code cleanup. > >I understand; I would rather have that too, everything else being the >same. But everything else wouldn't be the same -- it would place many >more restrictions on 3.0, and the common subset would still be much >smaller. For me personally, the weight of the added restrictions to >3.0 is the killer.
I don't understand; how would adding features to 2.6 restrict what you could add to 3.0? _______________________________________________ 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
