-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jesse Noller wrote: > On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Daniel Stutzbach > <dan...@stutzbachenterprises.com> wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 12:03 AM, Brian Quinlan <br...@sweetapp.com> wrote: >>> import futures >> +1 on the idea, -1 on the name. It's too similar to "from __future__ import >> ...". > > Futures is a common term for this, and implemented named this in other > languages. I don't think we should be adopting things that are common, > and found elsewhere and then renaming them.
- -1 to the name from me as well: it isn't "scoped" properly to make it clear what the module is about. If they were inside a pacakge named 'concurrency' or some such (as hinted by Jesse Noller, I think), the clash would go away. Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 tsea...@palladion.com Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkuRapAACgkQ+gerLs4ltQ7dBwCfRmMuq6X9VE8usYgSScXEA1D0 1PsAoI8MR5hjPjq9C7MFPTZhcO/T+NM4 =7wpK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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
