[Python-Dev] Re: PEP 0211: Linear Algebra Operators (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido@beopen.com
Sat, 12 Aug 2000 09:48:11 -0500

As the PEP posted by Greg is substantially different from the one floating around in c.l.py, I'd like to post the latter here, which covers several weeks of discussions by dozens of discussants. I'd like to encourage Greg to post his version to python-list to seek comments.

A procedural suggestion: let's have two PEPs, one for Huaiyu's proposal, one for Greg's. Each PEP should in its introduction briefly mention the other as an alternative. I don't generally recommend that alternative proposals develop separate PEPs, but in this case the potential impact on Python is so large that I think it's the only way to proceed that doesn't give one group an unfair advantage over the other.

I haven't had the time to read either proposal yet, so I can't comment on their (in)compatibility, but I would surmise that at most one can be accepted -- with the emphasis on at most (possibly neither is ready for prime time), and with the understanding that each proposal may be able to borrow ideas or code from the other anyway.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.pythonlabs.com/~guido/)