On Sat, May 15, 2021 at 5:15 PM Martin Teichmann
<martin.teichm...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Chris, Hi List,
>
> having slept over it, I think I have to take back my offer to write a PEP. 
> Why? Well, I am actually sure that it will get rejected anyways.

Wouldn't be the first time a PEP has been written with full
expectation of it being rejected, though!

> I see that you would like to sum up the discussion in a PEP so you can point 
> future requesters there. But given that there are repeatedly requests here, 
> and over at sympy I learned they even wrote a pre-parser, not to forget 
> André's efforts presented here, shows that there seems to be an actual need. 
> Telling people: "look at that PEP, we solved that ages ago" would be 
> dishonest, because we did not.
>

A PEP doesn't mean that we've solved anything; it means that there is
a single place where the arguments for and against have been gathered,
rather than searching through email archives.

ChrisA
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