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PEP 1, PEP Purpose and Guidelines

François Pinard pinard at iro.umontreal.ca
Mon Jul 29 19:05:56 EDT 2002 
[Barry A. Warsaw]

> It has been a while since I posted a copy of PEP 1 to the mailing
> lists and newsgroups.

Thanks for giving me this opportunity.  There is a tiny detail that
bothers me:

>     The format of the author entry should be
>         address at dom.ain (Random J. User)
>     if the email address is included, and just
>         Random J. User
>     if the address is not given.

This makes me jump fifteen years behind (or so, I do not remember times),
at the time of the great push so the Internet prefers:

       Random J. User <address at dom.ain>

It is more reasonable to always give the real name, optionally followed by
an email, that to consider that the real name is a mere comment for the
email address.  Oh, I know some hackers who praise themselves as login
names or dream having positronic brains :-), but most of us are humans
before anything else!

Could the PEP be reformulated, at least, for leaving the choice opened?

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François Pinard   http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard
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