On Sun, Oct 31, 2021, 5:39 PM Rob Cliffe via Python-ideas > PEP 671 will be USEFUL to Python programmers. We want it! (When do we > want it? Now!) >
This feels dishonest. I believe I qualify as a Python programmer. I started using Python 1.4 in 1998. The large majority of my work life since then had been programming Python. I've written a bunch of books on Python. I was a director of the PSF. I DO NOT want PEP 671, and do not feel it would be a net benefit to Python programmers. I am not on the SC, so indeed I won't make the decision. But I *will* continue to teach Python. New syntax adds a burden to learners, and it should not be introduced without sufficient benefit to merit that burden. This proposal does not come close to that threshold. I was the first in this thread to propose a far more general capability that I think WOULD meet the cost/benefit balance... and I proposed it because I think there is a way to meet the niche need that also has wide enough application to warrant new syntax. Python isn't Perl. Not every piece of syntax that *someone* might occasionally use for a narrow need should be included in the language. >
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