[Python-3000] Adaptation vs. Generic Functions

[Terry Reedy]

"Ian Bicking" <ianb at colorstudy.com> wrote in message 
news:443E7E69.9000900 at colorstudy.com...
>> Definitely wild. Reader beware. Now is the time to generate lots of
>> wild ideas and let them sink in. If it still seems a good idea 3
>> months from now we may select it for a code experiment (as opposed to
>> a thought experiment). BTW I want to encourage lots of code
>> experiments for Python 3.0 -- though not directly in the p3yk (sic)
>> branch.
>
> And I could have sworn you asked for less wild ideas just the other 
> day...

Well, there are surface wild ideas that amount to rearranging deck chairs, 
and there are deeper wild ideas that are more like changing the propeller 
drive from piston engines to turbines.  Less of the former and more of the 
latter.

tjr