[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

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

2021-02-08 Thread Nick Coghlan
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 as well as > positives. Just because the

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

2021-02-08 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Tue, 9 Feb 2021, 6:21 am Python Steering Council, < steering-coun...@python.org> wrote: > After much deliberation, the Python Steering Council is happy to announce > that we have chosen to accept PEP 634, and its companion PEPs 635 and 636, > collectively known as the Pattern Matching PEPs. We

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

2021-02-08 Thread Terry Reedy
On 2/8/2021 3:07 PM, Python Steering Council wrote: After much deliberation, the Python Steering Council is happy to announce that we have chosen to accept PEP 634, and its companion PEPs 635 and 636, collectively known as the Pattern Matching PEPs. Thank you for your collective time and effo