Steve Holden: > The real problems with the Py3k list seem to be associated with a number > of people who, despite having had little apparent connection to the > language until now, have joined the list and started making > inappropriate suggestions, which then have to be (patiently) rejected.
This attitude may have some downsides. The Python developers don't know everything, other people can have some experience of computer languages too. So people coming from different languages, like Erlang, Ruby, Dylan, Io, CommonLisp, C#, Haskell, and Lua can give useful suggestions to update and 'improve' Python. Often their suggestions can be unfit for Python, but if you don't waste a little of time evaluating their ideas, you lose some possibilities. Python 3.0 isn't just an occasion to remove some rust and obsolete things from Python, but a way to invent and adopt different ideas too. So I think wasting some time in that way is positive for Py 3.0 devs. Bye, bearophile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
