[Python-Dev] PEP 3003 - Python Language Moratorium

[Greg Ewing]

John Arbash Meinel wrote:

> He wanted to introduce a moratorium at least partially because he was
> tired of endless threads about anonymous code blocks, etc. Which aren't
> going to be included in the language anyway, so he may as well make a
> point to say "and neither will anything else for a while".

If anonymous code blocks still get discussed even when
they have no chance of being accepted, this suggests that
a moratorium is *not* going to stop discussion of new
features.

I'm a bit confused about Guido's reasons for wanting a
moratorium. He started out by saying that the intention
wasn't to stop people discussing ideas, then later he
seemed to say that he was finding all these discussions
were distracting, then he explicitly said he wanted to
"crush" people's hopes of getting new features into the
language. That all sounds like he actually *does* want
to discourage such discussions.

-- 
Greg