What has PEP 285 done to us?

Tue Apr 9 04:00:27 EDT 2002

On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 01:42:07PM -0700, Cliff Wells wrote:
> I have to say that the most damaging thing introduced by PEP 285 has little to
> do with the technical merits of the discussion.  The level of respect accorded
> others in this community has taken the most damage.  It seems that almost every
> discussion on this topic has quickly gone down in flames.

   I do not think the PEP *did* damage - it only revealed that our
community has problems. I don't understand what problems.

Oleg.
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     Oleg Broytmann            http://phd.pp.ru/            phd at phd.pp.ru
           Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.