PEP scepticism

[Robin Becker]

In article <cp1ynsk324.fsf at cj20424-a.reston1.va.home.com>, Guido van
Rossum <guido at python.org> writes
>Robin Becker <robin at jessikat.fsnet.co.uk> writes:
>
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>> 
>> For 250 documents to exist there have to be too many cooks for smooth
>> development as many organisational studies suggest that best team sizes
>> are between 3 and 7.
>
>Don't jump to conclusions too fast!  PEPs aren't numbered
>consecutively.  There are only about 75 PEPs.  Roughly half of those
>are historical documents (already implemented or rejected), some are
>meta-documents (numbers below 100).  The number under consideration is
>theoretically about 25; in practice, half of those will never make it.
>
>--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
so is this like version number or report number inflation? Or perhaps
something more sinister with integer arithmetic :)
-- 
Robin Becker