[Python-Dev] RE: Hot-To Guide for Descriptors - Nits! :-)

[Neil Schemenauer]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 04:55:51PM -0500, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> I'd love it if we could come up with a different term for these beasts
> that "new style classes".  Some day they won't be new any more, and may
> in fact be the only kind of classes in Python.

Yes.  We should also rename 'newcompile.c' to 'astcompile.c' or
something else before merging the AST branch.  I've been on a chess
kick recently and I find it humorous that the era of hyper-modern
openings was about 80 years ago.

  Neil