syntax change justification
Nick Coghlan's explanation of what justifies a syntax change (most of message http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-October/082831.html ) should probably be added to the standard docs/FAQs somewhere. At the moment, I'm not sure exactly where, though. At the moment, the Developer FAQ (http://www.python.org/dev/faq/) is mostly about using specific tools (rather than design philosophy), and Nick's explanation may be too detailed for the current Explanations section of www.python.org/dev/ Possibly as a Meta-PEP? -jJ
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 8:51 AM, Jim Jewett <jimjjewett@gmail.com> wrote:
Nick Coghlan's explanation of what justifies a syntax change (most of message http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-October/082831.html ) should probably be added to the standard docs/FAQs somewhere.
At the moment, I'm not sure exactly where, though. At the moment, the Developer FAQ (http://www.python.org/dev/faq/) is mostly about using specific tools (rather than design philosophy), and Nick's explanation may be too detailed for the current Explanations section of www.python.org/dev/
Possibly as a Meta-PEP?
What we need (and hope through some miracle to have the time for) a doc that explains the steps needed to report a bug/submit a patch (basically the issue lifecycle) and how to propose a new language feature. That would clean up the dev FAQ into basically being a svn FAQ, and then give us docs to point people to when they ask how they can contribute. -Brett
Jim Jewett wrote:
Nick Coghlan's explanation of what justifies a syntax change (most of message http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-October/082831.html ) should probably be added to the standard docs/FAQs somewhere.
I agree that this was a helpful explanation. A link to the original would be easy to add now.
Terry Reedy wrote:
Jim Jewett wrote:
Nick Coghlan's explanation of what justifies a syntax change (most of message http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-October/082831.html ) should probably be added to the standard docs/FAQs somewhere.
I agree that this was a helpful explanation. A link to the original would be easy to add now.
A link from either the dev FAQ (like the one to Raymond's School of Hard Knocks) or from PEP 1 (PEP Purpose and Guidelines) might work, but I will leave it to others to decide whether it is worth linking to or not :) Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia --------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.boredomandlaziness.org
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Brett Cannon
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Jim Jewett
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Terry Reedy