On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> wrote:
That's the moratorium-with-exceptions again, which cannot work because everyone has their favorite "can't wait" exception.
New technology should be dealt with in a library first anyway.
Anyway, the "Python core" includes a lot of stuff that isn't covered by the moratorium (which only prohibits changes to syntax and associated semantics, not implementation issues).
I expect that any issues with the moratorium will be discussed on python-dev first; but the yearly language summit will be a good point to review it too.
-- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/<http://www.python.org/%7Eguido/> )
With apologies, in this discussion I lost track of the fact that the moratorium is specific to the syntax and semantics issue. In this case I am in full support of the moratorium. It gets tiring seeing the same ideas proposed over and over again. Beyond python-dev the language summit should have a limited discussion about the moratorium, but beyond that it should stand. --Patrick Laban