[Python-Dev] Re: PEP 622: Structural Pattern Matching (version 2)

2020-07-17 Thread Jim J. Jewett
Mark Shannon wrote: > In future, could you avoid editing emails when replying to them? > A lot of context can get lost. I'll add another voice to Ethan's saying that I appreciate having as much as possible trimmed. As long as people are arguing in good faith (and I assume that they are here),

[Python-Dev] Re: PEP 622: Structural Pattern Matching (version 2)

2020-07-14 Thread Ethan Furman
On 07/14/2020 11:05 AM, Mark Shannon wrote: On 14/07/2020 5:25 pm, Tobias Kohn wrote: On 07/14/2020, Mark Shannon wrote: In future, could you avoid editing emails when replying to them? A lot of context can get lost. I appreciate posters who take the time to trim the parts of an email that

[Python-Dev] Re: PEP 622: Structural Pattern Matching (version 2)

2020-07-14 Thread Mark Shannon
Hi Tobias, In future, could you avoid editing emails when replying to them? A lot of context can get lost. On 14/07/2020 5:25 pm, Tobias Kohn wrote: Hi Mark, Thank you for your message.  I might be able to answer some of the questions and also address some issues with the underlying assumptio

[Python-Dev] Re: PEP 622: Structural Pattern Matching (version 2)

2020-07-14 Thread Tobias Kohn
Hi Mark, Thank you for your message.  I might be able to answer some of the questions and also address some issues with the underlying assumptions in your email---after all, we would most certainly want to avoid discussing and reasoning about straw men, as you yourself have repeatedly poi

[Python-Dev] Re: PEP 622: Structural Pattern Matching (version 2)

2020-07-14 Thread Mark Shannon
Hi, As I wrote in an earlier email: For a PEP to succeed it needs to show two things. 1. Exactly what problem is being solved, or need is to be fulfilled, and that is a sufficiently large problem, or need, to merit the proposed change. 2. That the proposed change is the best known solution