PEP 238 (revised)

[Guido van Rossum]

"Terry Reedy" <tjreedy at home.com> writes:

> To Guido: Version 1.10, which you indicated would not be the last, has
> gotten many cogent comments.  I recommend that at some point you
> pre-announce a time limit for discussion, at which time you will
> gather up existing comments, declare 1.10 and further comments thereon
> obsolete, retire to your desk or study, write version 1.11, and
> thereafter restart discussion with a new thread entitled 'PEP 238
> v1.11' .
> 
> To everyone else: such a declaration would in no way stop anyone from
> discussing anything they want.  It would help people not waste their
> own time by making obsolete comments of no effect.  An author of a
> work in progress has a right and usually a need to stop listening to
> return to writing a new draft.  One he releases the new draft, he has
> a right to only listen to comments that reference that new draft, so
> the discussion can move forward, (as it already has with 1.10).  This
> standard procedure is probably most valuable when the work is
> contentious.

Thanks for the suggestion.  I am almost ready to post 1.11.

But at some point I will have to withdraw from the newsgroup again --
then we will need a different mechanism to comment on the PEP (at
least if you want me to hear you).

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)