On 5/9/2011 4:05 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Eric Smith<e...@trueblade.com> wrote:
On 05/09/2011 03:17 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
While my own preference is "make X properly raise an exception" I'm
happy with any of the alternatives proposed here, and grateful to
Terry for calling this out.
I am willing to admit that I do not know all corners of Python ;-)
I read the commit messages to learn more; in particular what sort of
errors exist and how are they fixed.
>>> Checkin comments of the form "X does Y"
are ambiguous and confusing. (Same for feature requests in the
tracker.)
I have always assumed that an issue entitled 'x does y' is a bug report
about doing y now, before a fix.
Thanks indeed for bringing this up, Terry. It's been on my to-do list
for a while. I think it comes from just copying the title of a bug
report. The bug is "X does Y", and that's what's used in the fix.
I have also seen this type of message for non-tracker-issue commits.
But in bug reports it is also ambiguous, since I've often seen it used
meaning "X should do Y" which is very confusing when it doesn't do Y
yet at the time the bug is created. :-(
If I notice a title that bad, I will try to change it.
--
Terry Jan Reedy
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