Third Draft: Pep for Deprecating Builtins

John Baxter jwbaxter at spamcop.net
Mon Apr 29 19:55:12 EDT 2002


In article <mailman.1020109254.2687.python-list at python.org>,
 Tim Peters <tim.one at comcast.net> wrote:

> Note that Guido's comment on Python-Dev was:
> 
>     I strongly suggest sticking to the status quo.  There are more
>     important fish to fry.
> 
> Relax.
> 

This PEP seems to be in the category of "lots of good ideas for a new 
language...but this isn't a new language".  

I'm not convinced Python 3 is a "new enough" language for this PEP's 
ideas, although that would seem the obvious point for this sort of 
tinkering.

  --John



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