[Python-ideas] Proposal: Moratorium on Python language changes

Gregory P. Smith greg at krypto.org
Fri Oct 23 01:34:31 CEST 2009


On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Tim Peters <tim.peters at gmail.com> wrote:
> [Guido]
>> I propose a moratorium on language changes. This would be a period of
>> several years during which no changes to Python's grammar or language
>> semantics will be accepted.
>
> Eh.  I'll be a solid +1 on this /if/ you use your time machine to
> begin the moratorium right after the "with" statement was introduced.
> The rationale you gave applied as much then as it does now -- and if
> you do this, then we won't need to discuss it now, since it will
> already have been done.
>
> If you won't use your time machine, fine, +0.9.  I'm taking off a
> tenth so you realize there's a steep cost for refusing it interfere
> with history.

+1.1 from me.  Someone's gotta pick up Tim's 0.1 slack. ;)



More information about the Python-ideas mailing list