On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 11:50 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> wrote:
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 8:45 PM, geremy condra <debatem1@gmail.com> wrote:
Exactly- with a sandbox in place, the community could look at real code and evaluate features not just as abstract ideas, but as real working implementations- a first chance to see how well they might work in practice, how much code they break, and how well those changes work together, or, as you point out, don't.
You keep stressing the opportunities for new features, but I want to crush that hope -- new features should be rare, and should become rarer as the user community grows. The time to experiment was approximately 10 years ago. Go invent a new language (and hope for it to become popular :-) if you want to experiment.
-- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
I don't know how many more language changes we'll see in Python- I don't think anybody does- but if the intent is that the moratorium lift at some point, then I would suggest that we should start preparing for that time now. Geremy Condra