[Python-Dev] Re: Call for defense of @decorators (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Fri Aug 6 20:22:41 CEST 2004

Guido van Rossum wrote:

Does that really have to be stated? Isn't this just giving in to the silly lawyers? A reference manual describes the status quo. How can it possibly begin to describe future directions?

However, the Python reference manual became more than a reference manual, as it also talks about what a Python implementation can and cannot do, e.g. for memory management.

Providing future directions in the reference manual is a good thing to do if possible as it helps competing implementations and tool vendors. Clearly, people do make assumptions that a documented aspect of the language is not going to change, unless the documentation says that it is likely to change.

Regards, Martin

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