[Python-Dev] Re: vox populii illiterati

[François Pinard]

[M.-A. Lemburg]

> Good plan :-)

> Except maybe one nit: some of us here in python-dev don't read
> c.l.p, so their vote wouldn't get taken into account.

The trend of discussions seem to suggest that the result of that effort will
be summarised by statistics: this syntactic construct, this number of votes.

But the spirit of a PEP, if I understand it well, is mainly to register the
outcome of all discussions, opinions and reasons behind them, and how these
were weighted and pondered into any final decision.  The idea is that later
newcomers can then be directed to its PEP whenever a subject pops up again.

One problem here is that the PEP author (Guido) does not intend to follow
the whole discussion, admittedly fluent in these days.  How will it be
reported then, in the spirit of a PEP, that is, more than mere statistics?

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François Pinard   http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard