Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettin...@gmail.com> added the comment:

Marking this as closed:
* no forward movement for a year and half 
* opposition from multiple core devs

Feel free to revive this if you truly think this is needed and want to get the 
debate going again.

Also, expanding the numeric tower is always going to be problematic, because 
any user type that currently registers with it will be instantly non-compliant. 
 Concrete classes can grow APIs and keep backwards compatibility but abstract 
classes cannot easily grow new requirements.

----------
resolution:  -> rejected
stage: patch review -> resolved
status: open -> closed

_______________________________________
Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org>
<https://bugs.python.org/issue26680>
_______________________________________
_______________________________________________
Python-bugs-list mailing list
Unsubscribe: 
https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com

Reply via email to