Language change and code breaks

[Guido van Rossum]

philh at comuno.freeserve.co.uk (phil hunt) writes:

> >I also don't want to fork the code base.  
> 
> Does that imply that you sare no longer interested in making 
> radical changes to Python, such as case-insensitive identifiers
> mentioned in CP4E?

I still have the same end goal, but I believe there must be a way to
obtain it without too much disturbance.  Case-sensitivity, for
example, may be a tool feature rather than a language feature, or it
may be a user option or a langage-level choice.  (Not that I've
figured out exactly how to do this, but TeachScheme makes this an
option.)  Note that case-sensitivity is also controversial: the Alice
folks found it a problem, but the VPython folks have not confirmed
this (while they did confirm the integer division trap).

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