On 7/24/2013 5:12 AM, Bohuslav Kabrda wrote:
Hi all, in recent days, there has been a discussion on fedora-devel
(see thread [1]) about moving to Python 3 as a default.
Default-shift is a known natural language phenomenon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retronym
It is inevitably messy in the middle. Even worse for us, "Python' is
both a natural and artificial language term and the default meaning will
not necessarily be synchronized across the two domains.
Not being a current *nix user, I have no opinion on the specific
alternatives. However, I am concerned about newcomers being mis-served
by being mislead into thinking that 'Python' is python 2 rather python
3. We see this in some newbie posts on Python list. (This is especially
a concern when default Python is still, say, 2.5.) I have no idea,
though, how to avoid breaking scripts while directing newcomers in the
proper direction.
--
Terry Jan Reedy
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