Guido van Rossum writes:
> "Future" is a pretty standard CS term for this concept (as noted
> "promise" is another),
I like the term "promise" better. "Future" is very generic ("not now,
but later"), whereas a "promise" is something I don't get from you
now, but you will give me later.
The wikipedia article is not very helpful on the implicit vs. explicit
distinction. As far as I can tell from it, that distinction isn't
really attached to "future" vs "promise." The only distinction the
article described was in the context of the Alice language, where a
future = promise (read-only) plus resolver (mutator). IMO that's not
a compelling reason for adopting "future" in Python.
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