Ned Deily writes: > But the point I was trying to make is that, by changing the > language requirement, we will likely have an effect on what > platforms (across the board) and versions we support and we should > take that into account when making this decision. It may be the > right decision, in balance, to drop support for some of these but > we shouldn't do it by accident.
Sure, you were clear enough about that. My point was simply that at least for older Macs it probably is not that big a problem (but I do have a Panther still running, at least as of March it did ;-). Similarly, for platforms where we build with GCC, many of these features have been available for a long time with switches. Adding it all up, we don't want to break anybody inadvertantly and we should take care to fix what breakage we can in advance, but I think it's time to allow at least some of these features, and maybe move to C99 wholesale. Steve _______________________________________________ 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
