Wrong reasons to enhancing the language

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <9960i1$tp0$1 at nntp6.u.washington.edu>,
Russell E. Owen <owen at astrono.junkwashington.emu> wrote:
>
>I believe many of the improvements in Python 2.0 fall into the category 
>of helpful improvements. I am more doubtful about some of the stuff 
>coming up (including nested scopes, // and rational numbers), but we'll 
>see how it works out.

None of those are Python 2.0 improvements.  Nested scopes are an
optional feature of Python 2.1 and the others are simply *proposed*
features.  This is a *great* time to be debating the numerics issues.
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