On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 07:12:37PM +1200, Greg Ewing wrote:
> On 21/09/20 6:59 pm, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 10:26:45AM +0400, Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer wrote:
> > > I am thinking of proposing to name accepted PEPs as PAPs
> > > namely: Python Accepted Proposals.
> 
> There's precedent for *not* doing that kind of thing.
> "RFC" stands for "Request For Comment", and it stays that
> way long after it has become adopted as a standard!

Indeed, I also first thought about RFCs and how they remain being called 
RFCs. I see no reason why we should think about changing PEPs.

> Maybe posts to the Python lists could be passed through a
> filter that looks for PEP references and adds information to
> them.
> 
> E.g. if someone typed "PEP 9876" into a post it might get
> replaced by "PEP 9876 - Add turboencabulation module to stdlib
> (Rejected)".

This is an interesting thought. I wonder how hard this would be to 
implement in practice.

- DLD

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David Lowry-Duda <da...@lowryduda.com> <davidlowryduda.com>
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