[Python-Dev] RE: [Python-checkins] CVS: python/dist/src/Python compile.c,2.198,2.199 (original) (raw)

Tim Peters tim.one@home.com
Wed, 9 May 2001 04:20:12 -0400

[Neil Schemenauer]

Shouldn't the entry in the future file be:

nestedscopes = Feature((2, 1, 0, "beta", 1), (2, 2, 0, "alpha", 0)) or am I misunderstanding something?

Until nested_scopes is the rule, the Mandatory Release field is just a guess about the future. Changing it to (2, 2, 0, "alpha", 0) right now would be wrong, since it would change it from a guess about the future to a false statement about the present. It must be changed when nested_scopes become mandatory; it needn't be changed before then (unless we delay making them mandatory beyond 2.2 final), although if somebody thinks they have a good use for moving the guess up, fine, just so long as they don't move the guess to or before 2.2a0.