[Python-Dev] PEP 550 v3

[Ethan Furman]

On 08/19/2017 01:40 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Aug 2017 16:33:27 -0400 Yury Selivanov wrote:

>> There are a few open questions left, namely the terminology
>> and design of ContextKey API.  On the former topic, I'm quite
>> happy with the latest version: Execution Context, Logical
>> Context, and Context Key.
>
> I don't really like it.  "Logical Context" is vague (there are
> lots of things called "context" in other libraries, so a bit of
> specificity would help avoid confusion), and it's not clear what is
> "logical" about it anyway.  "Local Context" actually seemed better to
> me (as it reminded of threading.local() or the general notion of
> thread-local storage).

I am also not seeing the link between "logical" and "this local layer of environmental changes that won't be seen by 
those who called me".

Maybe ContextLayer?  Or marry the two and call it LocalContextLayer.

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~Ethan~