Hello, On Tue, 21 Apr 2015 12:17:01 -0400 "R. David Murray" <rdmur...@bitdance.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Apr 2015 18:27:50 +0300, Paul Sokolovsky > <pmis...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I was replying to Steven's message. Did you read it? > > > > Yes. And I try to follow general course of discussion, as its hard > > to follow individual sub-threads. And for example yesterday's big > > theme was people blackmailing that they stop contributing to stdlib > > if annotations are in, and today's theme appear to be people > > telling that static type checking won't be useful. And just your > > reply to Steven was a final straw which prompted me to point out > > that static type checking is not a crux of it, but just one (not > > the biggest IMHO) usage. > > Please be respectful rather than inflammatory. If you read what I > wrote, I did not say that I was going to stop contributing, I > specifically talked about that gut reaction being both emotional and > illogical. Sure, and I didn't mean you personally - your original message conveyed that it was "gut feeling" very well. More like following to your message, where people gave "+1". To a gut feeling? To the thought of stopping contribution? I dunno, and that "blackmail" note wasn't intended to be more serious than "burn the witch" and other funny stylistic devices which already appeared and make the discussion a bit more lively ;-). > That doesn't make the reaction any less real, and the fact > that such reactions exist is a data point you should consider in > conducting your PR campaign for this issue. (I don't mean that last > as a negative: this issue *requires* an honest PR campaign.) It does, and hope people won't be caught in "static typechecking" loop and consider other usages too. > > --David -- Best regards, Paul mailto:pmis...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
