[Python-Dev] [PEP 3148] futures - execute computations asynchronously (original) (raw)

skip at pobox.com skip at pobox.com
Fri Mar 5 17:56:52 CET 2010 

>>> import futures
>> 
>> +1 on the idea, -1 on the name.  It's too similar to "from __future__ import
>> ...".

Jesse> Futures is a common term for this, and implemented named this in
Jesse> other languages. I don't think we should be adopting things that
Jesse> are common, and found elsewhere and then renaming them.

Perhaps, but is it a common term for Python programmers (or the target population for Python)? I've never heard of it. "futures" to me are futures contracts in a trading environment (that's the industry I work in). No matter how well known the term is in the environment where it's used today you have to be sensitive to other meanings of the term.

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