[Python-ideas] Clearer communication

[Stefan Behnel]

James Lu schrieb am 01.02.19 um 17:40:
> A lot of the traffic on this email list is people saying “I don’t understand” or “that’s not what I meant” or trying to re-explain. A lot of “-1”s are really “I don’t see the usefulness of this”.
> 
> So I want an open discussion on: How can we communicate clearer?

While I agree with others that this is a good question worth asking, I also
think that it's somewhat the nature of this list that a) the topics
discussed here often require a good understanding of Python and the
workings of the language, b) the described use cases and ideas are often
novel and therefore may not immediately ring bells in everyone's ears, and
c) many topics are recurring, so people who give a quick "-1" may just be
reluctant to discuss them all over again without expecting new facets to
appear (which rarely happens, in fact, although there are famously PEP-ed
exceptions).

And, last but not least, "I don't see the usefulness of this" is a
perfectly valid counter-argument, especially for a well designed language
like Python. I can think of at least one programming language that was not
so lucky to have enough people say this.

Stefan