2009/10/23 Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 9:18 AM, geremy condra <debatem1@gmail.com> wrote:
Arguments against past proposals are not arguments against future proposals. Unless Guido's time machine got an extra supercollider while I wasn't looking, nobody on this board knows what's coming down the pipe next, and my argument is that if the suggestion is super-awesome, popularly supported, and maintained until the end of the moratorium, then it should have a really good chance of getting in. To paraphrase a discussion I had on this topic last night, the fact that there's a long, hard road to getting a feature into the language isn't a problem. The idea that there shouldn't be a road is.
I need to give my elbow more rest for a couple weeks, so I'm limiting myself to ultra-short emails.
I take exception to "popularly supported" above. Python is still not a democracy. You can fill in the rest.
Despite the title this was never really a 'proposal' was it. ;-) All the best, Michael
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