"Phillip J. Eby"
At 03:35 PM 9/26/2005 -0700, Micah Elliott wrote:
Please read/comment/vote. This circulated as a pre-PEP proposal submitted to c.l.py on August 10, but has changed quite a bit since then. I'm reposting this since it is now "Open (under consideration)" at http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0350.html.
This seems a little weird to me. On the one hand, seems like a cool idea if you aren't using Eclipse or another IDE that tracks this stuff, but still need some kind of tracking system. But, if that is the case, the notation seems a little bit overkill, especially with respect to tracking who's responsible - i.e., just you.
There are various Python editors which have had support for a similar style of tags for quite a while. Some allow #<anything>: <comment>, others allow # <alphanumeric and spaces> : <comment>, even others allow more or less. Some even count exclamation points as an indicator of severity. Personally, though I use tags in some of the code I write, and though the editor I use (and wrote) supports tags, I'm of the opinion that an unofficial spec is sufficient. See koders.com and search for 'fixme' to see some common variants. - Josiah