[Python-Dev] [PEP 3148] futures - execute computations asynchronously

[Ben Finney]

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen at xemacs.org> writes:

> I have to admit Jean-Paul's explanation a pretty convincing reason for
> adopting "future" rather than "promise". But I'm with Skip, I would
> prefer that the module be named "future" rather than "futures".

Has anyone in this very long thread raised the issue that Python
*already* uses this term for the name of a module with a totally
unrelated purpose; the ‘__future__’ pseudo-module?

That alone seems a pretty strong reason to avoid the word “future”
(singular or plural) for some other module name.

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Ben Finney