The fact of the matter is that you need (at least) two things to get
something new into Python:

1) a good idea that folks will support

2) A "champion" -- someone to keep the conversation going, maybe write a
PEP, etc.

No matter how great an idea is, it takes a lot of work to get it to a
consensus and get it done.

For this idea, no one has stepped up to that role, so it petered out --
which is not uncommon on this list.

-CHB


On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 3:49 AM Chris Angelico <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 7:16 PM Steven D'Aprano <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 10:46:58AM +0200, Marco Sulla wrote:
> > > Well, "up" it's used in forums to draw attention :)
> >
> > My ex-boss used to do the same thing except he would use "ping" to get
> > attention.
> >
> > But in his case he would quote his previous (unanswered) question, so
> > that we would at least know the context of the ping.
>
> And when someone's your boss, he can reasonably expect/demand an
> answer, so a context-free "ping" really means "hey guys, you didn't
> get around to this, and it's important to your jobs". No such
> obligation on mailing lists like this.
>
> > Did you have a specific question to be answered or are you just hoping
> > to get people interested in the proposal?
> >
>
> A proposal that requires syntactic changes, demonstrates no use-cases
> beyond "wouldn't this be nice", allows us to write Java code in
> Python, and maybe even in the future, allows us to do what we can
> already do with type annotations? I'm amazed python-ideas hasn't
> already had a hundred-post thread on the subject!
>
> ChrisA
> only half joking, too...
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