On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 08:48, Moore, Paul wrote:
The PEP doesn't specify where discussion should take place, but the author hasn't participated here. At some point, he (or someone else) is going to have to put the PEP forward for acceptance.
At the moment, the PEP appears fairly strongly in favour of "as" and against the use of brackets. But the author admits that he has not got the expertise to provide an implementation.
At this point, I think the PEP should try to outline the various syntactic options in a way that the BDFL can look at them and make a decision. I think it's okay that the implementation picks one of those -- I don't think we necessarily need implementations of every syntax option right now. The existing one allows people to play with the semantics which should be good enough to decide whether we want new syntax to support this at all. -Barry