[Python-Dev] PEP 3003 - Python Language Moratorium (original) (raw)

John Arbash Meinel john.arbash.meinel at gmail.com
Sun Nov 8 01:39:18 CET 2009

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A moratorium isn't cost-free. With the back-end free to change, patches will go stale over 2+ years. People will lose interest or otherwise move on. Those with good ideas but little patience will be discouraged. I fully expect that, human nature being as it is, those proposing a change, good or bad, will be told not to bother wasting their time, there's a moratorium on at least as often as they'll be encouraged to bide their time while the moratorium is on.

I believe if you go back to the very beginning of this thread, Guido considers this a feature not a bug.

He wanted to introduce a moratorium at least partially because he was tired of endless threads about anonymous code blocks, etc. Which aren't going to be included in the language anyway, so he may as well make a point to say "and neither will anything else for a while".

I don't mean to put words into his mouth, so please correct me if I'm wrong.

John =:->

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