Courageous jkraska1 at san.rr.com
Fri Jul 6 18:48:39 EDT 2001

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>The warning framework and the future statement are there to make the
>transition easier.  Here's my plan, "new division in four phases":

[Snip: Guido's plan]

This seems to me to be reasonable. While backward compatibility
is important in computer languages, the real problem occurs when
changes are abrupt. And in any case, we always have older versions
of the interpreter around.

C//

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