Hi Martin, On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 2:29 AM, "Martin v. Löwis" <mar...@v.loewis.de> wrote: >> Could somebody please clarify the status of PEP 3124? At >> http://ftp.python.org/dev/peps/ , it is listed as "under >> consideration", but http://ftp.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3124/ says it >> has been deferred. > > This isn't really contradictory. "under consideration" means "in > progress": it has neither been accepted or rejected. > > If Phillip doesn't respond here, you may want to ask him directly. > My impression is that it is deferred because nobody is pursuing it > actively (including Phillip Eby). It's common for a PEP to be in that > state for several years, "deferred" then is an indication that readers > shouldn't expect a resolution in short term.
That is why I asked, I wondered if it is being actively considered and pursued, or if it had been deferred or worse abandoned. > That said: my personal feeling is that this PEP is way too large, and > should be broken into seperate pieces of functionality that can be > considered independently. There is a lot of stuff in it that isn't > strictly necessary to provide the feature listed in the rationale. It would be nice to have a suitable foundation upon which more elaborate third party dispatchers could build. The potential generic functions have in a project like numpy are pretty exciting. Darren _______________________________________________ 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
