[meta-sig] PROPOSAL: Python Scarecrow SIG

David Ascher da@skivs.ski.org
Wed, 18 Nov 1998 09:21:26 -0800 (Pacific Standard Time)


On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:

> So please give your feedback: do we merge the three topics or keep
> them separate?

I'm with Jim on this one.  I think that the scarecrow proposal is doable
today, and a somewhat enhanced version using metaclasses/extensionclasses
can be done tomorrow (or a month from now).  And I think that it's
important that it be done soon.  The types/classes thing, on the other
hand, is much more blue-sky.  I think it'd be very difficult to maintain
two separate thread groups which have such different goals from colliding
("oh, you mean do this with the current syntax?", "but what about
backwards compatibility!??").  Move it from egroups to python.org if you
want, but I value the separation of topics.  I don't know where the static
typing thing fits in -- my guess is it would fit in to the types/classes
thing, as the part which needs discussion involves changing syntax and
semantics.  Everything else it requires is just plain work. =)

That said, I'll bow to the majority if one emerges.

--david