[Python-Dev] Re: PEP 292 - Simpler String Substitutions

[François Pinard]

[Barry Warsaw]

> > If my feeling is right, then the PEP should clearly explicit this
> > goal [of pushing `$' forward], it will make the PEP stronger.

> I will neither confirm nor deny whether the PSU is bankrolling the PEP
> 292 initiative, nor the actual existence of any 527 organization
> claiming to be called the "PSU", nor whether if they did exist, they
> were or weren't acting in coordination with the campaign organizations
> of any 2004 US presidential nominee.

Nice joking.  Still, yet, and nevertheless, I think making the PEP
closer to the truth might make it stronger.  It might also repair a bit
the feeling that the PEP process is sometimes mildly lacking (the @-PEP
having been ratehr publicised as an example of this, recently).

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