Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 350: Codetags

2005-09-26 Thread Neil Schemenauer
Micah Elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ``FIXME (XXX, DEBUG, BROKEN, REFACTOR, REFACT, RFCTR, OOPS, SMELL, NEEDSWORK, > INSPECT)`` >*Fix me*: Areas of problematic or ugly code needing refactoring or >cleanup. I think the standard should not have codetags that are synonyms. This is Pyth

Re: [Python-Dev] IMPORTANT: release24-maint branch is FROZEN from 2005-09-28 00:00 UTC for 2.4.2

2005-09-26 Thread Aahz
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005, Anthony Baxter wrote: > > So here we go - the release24-maint branch will be frozen from > midnight UTC on Wednesday the 28th (about 36 hours from now). This is > to cut 2.4.2 (final). > > If you have any pending patches you want to see landed on the branch, > mail me abou

[Python-Dev] IMPORTANT: release24-maint branch is FROZEN from 2005-09-28 00:00 UTC for 2.4.2

2005-09-26 Thread Anthony Baxter
So here we go - the release24-maint branch will be frozen from midnight UTC on Wednesday the 28th (about 36 hours from now). This is to cut 2.4.2 (final). If you have any pending patches you want to see landed on the branch, mail me about them - and do it soon! There's been a bunch of fixes s

[Python-Dev] Trasvesal thought on syntax features

2005-09-26 Thread Paolino
I don't remember where I read (here around probably) that having a "client pluggable" syntax was not good for python because then ,and more blah blah.I believed it was a rule of the thumb.. But ,when a client programmer like me writes code he tries to give a clean, unambigous interface/syntax fo

Re: [Python-Dev] Adding a conditional expression in Py3.0

2005-09-26 Thread Gareth McCaughan
On Saturday 2005-09-24 04:21, Terry Reedy wrote: > Never wrote a single line, and may have not read one (in DDJ? Byte?) for > 15-20 years. How do *you* read such C? Cond 'Qmark' ? I seldom have to read C code aloud, and the ?: operator is rare-ish; but I would suggest reading a?b:c as "a c