On 1/16/07, Phillip J. Eby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 03:18 PM 1/16/2007 -0800, Guido van Rossum wrote: > >On 1/16/07, Phillip J. Eby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The idea here being that, once 2.6 is widely-enough deployed that it can > > > be > > > assumed as a base for one's users, you can simply run the translator once, > > > do any cleanup, and then have 3.0-clean code that also still runs for your > > > installed base. > > > > > > That way, there's no chasm to leap; just a code cleanup. > > > >I understand; I would rather have that too, everything else being the > >same. But everything else wouldn't be the same -- it would place many > >more restrictions on 3.0, and the common subset would still be much > >smaller. For me personally, the weight of the added restrictions to > >3.0 is the killer. > > I don't understand; how would adding features to 2.6 restrict what you > could add to 3.0?
Oh, as long as we're talking adding features to 2.6 I'm fine. I thought you were proposing changes to the plans for 3.0, as in your proposal" regarding the dict view API. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
