[Python-ideas] Optimistic Concurrency

[Terry Reedy]

Leif Walsh wrote:

> For example (since we talked about this in a class I had today), think
> about the vfs in linux:

Out of my knowledge range.

>> Or the program might ask a human user, which was the use-case for this idea.
> 
> I don't think I understood the use case.  Can you explain it?

Near the bottom of the original article this thread is based on.
Casual users requesting html forms, maybe submitting then, maybe not, 
with low collision rate, and ability to adjust to collisions.

tjr