[Python-Dev] PEP 550 v3 naming

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 1:22 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 24 August 2017 at 02:19, Yury Selivanov <yselivanov.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I think that "implicit context" is not an accurate description of what
>> LogicalContext is.
>>
>> "implicit context" only makes sense when we talk about decimal
>> context.  For instance, in:
>>
>>     Decimal(1) + Decimal(2)
>>
>> decimal context is implicit.  But this is "implicit" from the
>> standpoint of that code.  Decimal will manage its context
>> *explicitly*.
>>
>> Fixing decimal context is only one part of the PEP though.  EC will
>> also allow to implement asynchronous task locals:
>>
>>     current_request = new_context_key()
>>
>>     async def handle_http_request(request):
>>          current_request.set(request)
>>
>> Here we explicitly set and will explicitly get values from the EC.  We
>> will explicitly manage the EC in asyncio.Task and when we schedule
>> callbacks.
>
> The implicit behaviour that "implicit context" refers to is the fact
> that if you look at an isolated snippet of code, you have no idea what
> context you're actually going to be querying or modifying - that's
> implicit in the execution of the whole program.

How about: RuntimeContext and RuntimeContextStack

-n

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