On Nov 3, 2009, at 3:42 PM, Michael Foord wrote:
Barry Warsaw wrote:
On Nov 3, 2009, at 12:35 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
I've checked draft (!) PEP 3003, "Python Language Moratorium", into
SVN. As authors I've listed Jesse, Brett and myself.
On python-ideas the moratorium idea got fairly positive responses
(more positive than I'd expected, in fact) but I'm bracing myself
for
fierce discussion here on python-dev. It's important to me that if
if
this is accepted it is a "rough consensus" decision (working code we
already have plenty of :-), not something enforced by a vocal
minority
or an influential individual such as myself. If there's too much
opposition I'll withdraw the PEP so as not to waste everybody's time
with a fruitless discussion.
The PEP tries to spell out some gray areas but I'm sure there will
be
others; that's life. Do note that the PEP proposes to be
*retroactive*
back to the 3.1 release, i.e. the "frozen" version of the language
is
the state in which it was released as 3.1.
I think this is a great idea. I'd love to see the energy normally
put into evolving the language into making the stdlib really kick
ass.
+lots
Ditto.
Doug
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