[Python-3000] Support for PEP 3131 (original) (raw)

Josiah Carlson jcarlson at uci.edu
Fri May 25 07:04:53 CEST 2007

"Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:

Ka-Ping Yee schrieb: > On Fri, 25 May 2007, [ISO-8859-1] "Martin v. L�wis" wrote: >> Please do consider the needs of the people who want to actively >> use the feature as well. Otherwise, you have no chance of understanding >> what will make everyone happy. > > People who want to use the feature can turn it on. I don't see what's > so unreasonable about that.

People who want to use the feature would have to know that it is only present if you turn it on. It's like saying "you can use hexadecimal integer literals, but you have to turn them on". This wouldn't work: people try to use them, find out that it won't work, and assume that it's not supported.

Are we going to stop offering informational error messages to people? Because an informational error message could go a long way towards helping people to understand what is going on.

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