Message 174777 - Python tracker

Message174777

Author	pitrou
Recipients	Mark.Shannon, ag6502, amaury.forgeotdarc, benjamin.peterson, francismb, ggenellina, ncoghlan, pitrou, serhiy.storchaka, terry.reedy
Date	2012-11-04.10:51:36
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> Autogenerated code could easily hit the 1000 term limit - if anything, > I'd be inclined to set it higher than 4 rather than lower, as > breaking previously working code in a maintenance release is a bad > thing, regardless of our opinion of the sanity of that code. We can simply apply the 1000 limit in Python 3.4 and mark the bug as won't fix in other versions. I don't think adding a scaling factor just to cope with hypothetical silly code is a good thing in the long term.

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> Autogenerated code could easily hit the 1000 term limit - if anything,
> I'd be inclined to set it *higher* than 4 rather than lower, as
> breaking previously working code in a maintenance release is a bad
> thing, regardless of our opinion of the sanity of that code.

We can simply apply the 1000 limit in Python 3.4 and mark the bug as
won't fix in other versions.

I don't think adding a scaling factor just to cope with hypothetical
silly code is a good thing in the long term.

History
Date	User	Action	Args
2012-11-04 10:51:37	pitrou	set	recipients: + pitrou, terry.reedy, amaury.forgeotdarc, ncoghlan, ggenellina, ag6502, benjamin.peterson, Mark.Shannon, francismb, serhiy.storchaka
2012-11-04 10:51:37	pitrou	link	issue5765 messages
2012-11-04 10:51:36	pitrou	create