On 2018-03-25 14:49:44 +0000, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > The moniker "Python X-thousand" (Python 3000, 4000, 5000...) is usually > understood to mean a backwards-compatibility breaking version. Since > Python 4 will *not* be such a version, what you are calling 4000 is > better called "5000".
If Python 4.0 will "merely be the release that comes after Python 3.9", as Nick Coghlan writes in https://opensource.com/life/14/9/why-python-4-wont-be-python-3, why will it be called 4.0 and not 3.10? Just to avoid two-digit minor numbers? hp -- _ | Peter J. Holzer | we build much bigger, better disasters now |_|_) | | because we have much more sophisticated | | | h...@hjp.at | management tools. __/ | http://www.hjp.at/ | -- Ross Anderson <https://www.edge.org/>
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