> On Apr 21, 2015, at 11:23 AM, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote:
>
> 2. Clearly, great thought has been put into this PEP. If anyone has a good
> analysis of the potential impact on Python 3 adoption, please do pass along.
> I would be interested in reading the information.
>
> I wish I had a crystal ball, but this is hard to predict. Anecdotally, some
> people believe this will be catnip, while others believe it to be poison. The
> truth will surely be somewhere in the middle. At this point we don't know
> what drives Python 3 adoption except time -- it's definitely going up. :-)
Anecdotal evidence shows that some organizations perceive this feature as one
that justifies migration. Some of those organizations are pretty serious about
open-sourcing things. That makes me believe that by sheer volume of the code
they’re producing, Python 3 adoption will continue to increase.
As Gregory Smith rightfully pointed out, nobody wants ugly code. I understand
why people are afraid of that and it warms my heart that they are. The
community cares so much about aesthetics and readability, it’s great!
We will evolve this over time. This will be a learning process for everybody
but we can’t learn to swim by only theorizing about it. We thought of the
evolving nature of the solution from Day 1, hence the *provisional* nature of
it. The wordy syntax is another example of that. Not requiring changes to the
interpreter and the standard library was very high on the list of priorities.
Once the *concept* proves itself, then we can improve on the syntax.
Acknowledging PEP 484 being just the second step^ in a long journey is why some
“obvious” parts are left out for now (hello, duck typing; hello, multiple
dispatch; hello, runtime type checks in unit tests; etc. etc.). Those are often
big enough to warrant their own PEPs.
^ PEP 3107 being the first.
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