[python-committers] Re: Acceptance of Pattern Matching PEPs 634, 635, 636, Rejection of PEPs 640 and 642

2021-02-09 Thread Guido van Rossum
On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 7:11 AM Ethan Furman wrote: > > >> Where possible, should we retroactively make existing > >> keywords contextual? > > > > The benefit of contextual keywords is being able to choose popular > method/function/variable names as new keywords > > without a disruptive depre

[python-committers] Re: Acceptance of Pattern Matching PEPs 634, 635, 636, Rejection of PEPs 640 and 642

2021-02-09 Thread Ethan Furman
On 2/8/21 3:02 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > On Tue, 9 Feb 2021, 8:18 am Terry Reedy wrote: >> The one thing I think needs to be discussed and not been much, at least >> not publicly that I have seen, is whether we really want to go down the >> road of contextual keywords. There are some negatives a