[Python-Dev] Python Style Sheets ? Re: User's complaints

[Josiah Carlson]

Boris Borcic <bborcic at gmail.com> wrote:
> Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > You must be misunderstanding.
> 
> I don't think so. You appeared to say that the language changes too much because 
> everyone wants different changes - that accumulate. I suggested a mechanism 
> allowing people to see only the changes they want - or none at all - might be 
> devised.

Let us imagine that such a system were devised and implemented.
Invariably user X and Y would have different sets of changes that they
want to use.  Presumably, if the features were nontrivial, then they
would no longer be able to exchange code because it would have been
directed at a different 'version' of Python, whose syntax or semantics
were different.

What you are suggesting is essentially built-in language fragmentation,
which is quite a bad idea.

 - Josiah