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

[Michael Foord]

2009/10/23 Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org>

> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 9:18 AM, geremy condra <debatem1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Arguments against past proposals are not arguments against
> > future proposals. Unless Guido's time machine got an extra
> > supercollider while I wasn't looking, nobody on this board knows
> > what's coming down the pipe next, and my argument is that if
> > the suggestion is super-awesome, popularly supported, and
> > maintained until the end of the moratorium, then it should have
> > a really good chance of getting in. To paraphrase a discussion
> > I had on this topic last night, the fact that there's a long, hard
> > road to getting a feature into the language isn't a problem. The
> > idea that there shouldn't be a road is.
>
> I need to give my elbow more rest for a couple weeks, so I'm limiting
> myself to ultra-short emails.
>
> I take exception to "popularly supported" above. Python is still not a
> democracy. You can fill in the rest.
>
>
Despite the title this was never really a 'proposal' was it. ;-)

All the best,

Michael


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