[Python-Dev] Python Style Sheets ? Re: User's complaints (original) (raw)

Josiah Carlson jcarlson at uci.edu
Mon Jul 17 19:10:35 CEST 2006

Boris Borcic <bborcic at gmail.com> wrote:

Guido van Rossum wrote: > You must be misunderstanding.

I don't think so. You appeared to say that the language changes too much because everyone wants different changes - that accumulate. I suggested a mechanism allowing people to see only the changes they want - or none at all - might be devised.

Let us imagine that such a system were devised and implemented. Invariably user X and Y would have different sets of changes that they want to use. Presumably, if the features were nontrivial, then they would no longer be able to exchange code because it would have been directed at a different 'version' of Python, whose syntax or semantics were different.

What you are suggesting is essentially built-in language fragmentation, which is quite a bad idea.

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