
On 2021-10-30 15:07, David Mertz, Ph.D. wrote:
I'm -100 now on "deferred evaluation, but contorted to be useless outside of argument declarations."
At first I thought it might be harmless, but nothing I really care about. After the discussion, I think the PEP would be actively harmful to future Python features.
I'm not sure I'm -100, but still a hard -1, maybe -10. I agree it seems totally absurd to add a type of deferred expression but restrict it to only work inside function definitions. That doesn't make any sense. If we have a way to create deferred expressions we should try to make them more generally usable. -- Brendan Barnwell "Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path, and leave a trail." --author unknown