[Python-Dev] New syntax threads -- summary wanted (original) (raw)

Brett Cannon bac@OCF.Berkeley.EDU
Wed, 5 Feb 2003 12:57:00 -0800 (PST)

[Guido van Rossum]

I am asking everyone who has participated in the thread(s) about new syntax (with, thunks, etc.) to hold off posting for a day, and think about summarizing the state of the discussion. Then if someone could post a summary of the various proposals on the table, with the key arguments pro and con for each, I'd like to start continuing. The goal at this point should be one or more PEPs. If you would like to volunteer to (co-)author a thread summary, please post to the list. The first volunteer to post gets to coordinate the others.

A PEP for the 'with' statement is being worked on as we speak by Paul and Michael (they are holding off for the discussion to die down and to possibly get more references). Have not heard of anyone doing a PEP for thunks nor the [] syntax.

And no, I am not volunteering to lead this summary. Dealing with the rest of the list is enough to keep me swamped as of late.

-Brett