On 01/28/2014 06:50 PM, Larry Hastings wrote:
See the recent discussion "Deprecation policy" right here in python-dev for a
cogent discussion on this issue. I agree
with Raymond's view, posted on 1/25:
* A good use for deprecations is for features that were flat-out misdesigned
and prone to error. For those, there is nothing wrong with deprecating them
right away. Once deprecated though, there doesn't need to be a rush to
actually remove it -- that just makes it harder for people with currently
working code to upgrade to newer versions of Python.
* When I became a core developer well over a decade ago, I was a little
deprecation happy (old stuff must go, keep everything nice and clean, etc).
What I learned though is that deprecations are very hard on users and that
the purported benefits usually aren't really important.
I also agree with this view.
I think the "times behaves differently when passed by name versus passed by
position" behavior falls exactly into this
category, and its advice on how to handle it is sound.
I don't agree with this. This is a bug. Somebody going through (for example) a code review and making minor changes so
the code is more readable shouldn't have to be afraid that [inserting | removing] the keyword in the function call is
going to *drastically* [1] change the behavior. I understand the need for a cycle of deprecation [2], but not fixing it
in 3.5 is folly.
--
~Ethan~
[1] or change the behavior *at all*, for that matter
[2] speaking of deprecations, are all the 3.1, 3.2, etc., etc., deprecations
being added to 2.7?
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