Not to mention the cost to documentation and books everywhere -- updating our own docs is only the tip of the iceberg. And then updating the users' brains is an even bigger job... (Though at least it is highly parallellizable. :-)
--Guido On 7/10/06, A.M. Kuchling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 05:13:53PM +0200, Armin Rigo wrote: > > didn't draw much applause. It certainly gave me the impression that > > many changes in Python are advocated and welcomed by only a small > > fraction of users. > > The benefits of changes are usually clear, but I don't think the costs > of changes are fully assessed. python-dev considers the cost of > changes to CPython's implementation, but I don't think the cost > changes to Jython, IronPython, or PyPy are taken into account here. > PyPy probably has enough representatives here who would squawk if > something was difficult, but I don't think Jython or IronPython do. > > I think if we assessed those costs fully, the bar for changes to the > language would be a good deal higher. > > --amk > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/guido%40python.org > -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
