On 8/14/06, Paul Prescod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There are three issues: first, we need to RESERVE the types for > standardization by Guido and crew.
You're just pushing the decision off to someone else. Regardless of who makes it, decisions involving the built-in types are going to make some group unhappy. This list saw several discussions related to standard interpretations for the built-in types back in May and June; here's a selection for you to catch up on: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/2006-May/002134.html http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/2006-May/002216.html http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/2006-June/002438.html One particularly divisive issue is whether tuples should be treated as fixed- or arbitrary-length containers. Concretely, does "tuple(Number)" match only 1-tuples with a single Number element, or does it match all tuples that have only Number elements? Regardless of which you pick, somebody's going to be pissed. > Second, we can decide to do the standardization at any point. Um, "at any point"? You mean it's conceivable that this standardisation could come *after* Python ships with function annotations? Collin Winter _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
