[Python-Dev] Python 4: don't remove anything, don't break backward compatibility

[Chris Angelico]

On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 3:56 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Mar 2014 17:04:08 +0100
> "Stefan Richthofer" <Stefan.Richthofer at gmx.de> wrote:
>
>> > Guido famously hates two digit minor version numbers. :)
>>
>> This is no problem either. Simply switch to hexadecimal numbering ;)
>
> Or wrap around to negative numbers (a minus sign isn't technically a
> digit, is it?).

Terrible idea. Would wreak havoc with comparisons. No. Python 3 is all
about Unicode, so the right way to proceed is 3.8, 3.9, 3.:, 3.;, 3.<,
3.=, 3.>, 3.?, 3.@, 3.A.

ChrisA