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R: [Python-Dev] PEP 1 update

Samuele Pedroni pedroni@inf.ethz.ch
Fri, 1 Mar 2002 00:59:08 +0100 
From: Samuele Pedroni <pedroni@inf.ethz.ch>
> Another maybe valuable thing:
> 
> probably another useful heuristic
> to divided the open PEPs
> beyond   proof-of-concept/no-proof-of-concept
> 
> is new-syntax/new-keywords/new-"funny"-semantics/
> non-backward compatible
> 
> vs. infrastructure/library/etc/BDFL championed
> 
> Those PEPs espacially make peope wonder:
> will that happen to my favorite language,
> oh god, when?, it seems real soon now - gulp, gasp.
> 

Clearly my point is not against "disruptive" changes
but about making clear for people what 
is ongoing-work-in-progress and what is still just
undecided.

regarfs, Samuele Pedroni.