On Apr 10, 2020, at 06:00, Soni L. <fakedme...@gmail.com> wrote > why's a "help us fix bugs related to exception handling" proposal getting so > much pushback? I don't understand.
Because it’s a proposal for a significant change to the language semantics that includes a change to the syntax, which is a very high bar to pass. Even for smaller changes that can be done purely in the library, the presumption is always conservative, but the higher the bar, the more pushback. There are also ways your proposal could be better. You don’t have a specific real life example. Your toy example doesn’t look like a real problem, and the fix makes it less readable and less pythonic. Your general rationale is that it won’t fix anything but it might make it possible for frameworks to fix problems that you insist exist but haven’t shown us—which is not a matter of “why should anyone trust you that they exist?”, but of “how can anyone evaluate how good the fix is without seeing them?” But most of this is stuff you could solve now, by answering the questions people are asking you. Sure, some of it is stuff you could have anticipated and answered preemptively, but even a perfectly thought-out and perfectly formed proposal will get pushback; it’s just more likely to survive it. If you’re worried that it’s personal, that people are pushing back because it comes from you and you’ve recently proposed a whole slew of radical half-baked ideas that all failed to get very far, or that your tone doesn’t fit the style or the Python community, or whatever, I don’t think so. Look at the proposal to change variable deletion time—that’s gotten a ton of pushback, and it’s certainly not because nobody respects Guido or nobody likes him. _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/TBHX4CHNVIMNZ4LH22WFJFOLONAJHGJ3/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
