On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 10:30 AM, <exar...@twistedmatrix.com> wrote: > On 05:06 pm, c...@hagenlocher.org wrote: >> >> On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 8:35 AM, Jesse Noller <jnol...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Daniel Stutzbach >>> <dan...@stutzbachenterprises.com> wrote: >>> > On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 12:03 AM, Brian Quinlan <br...@sweetapp.com> >>> > wrote: >>> >> >>> >> import futures >>> > >>> > +1 on the idea, -1 on the name. It's too similar to "from __future__ >>> > import >>> > ...". >>> >>> Futures is a common term for this, and implemented named this in other >>> languages. I don't think we should be adopting things that are common, >>> and found elsewhere and then renaming them. >> >> Another common term for this is a "promise". > > Promises aren't exactly the same. This would be a particularly bad name to > apply here.
Please explain. Even the Wikipedia article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futures_and_promises), despite promising to explain the difference, didn't explain it. -- --Guido van Rossum (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
