[Python-Dev] RE: PEP 285: Adding a bool type

[Magnus Lie Hetland]

In article <mailman.1017504601.26526.python-list at python.org>, Fred L.
Drake, Jr. wrote:
>
>Guido van Rossum writes:
> > You've been staring at standards too much, haven't you?  The
> > difference between MUST and SHOULD isn't as clear-cut as most
> > standards people use them.
>
>Most standards define MUST and SHOULD very specifically, and then use
>them according to those definitions.  There's an IETF RFC
>specifically for use in writing RFCs, allowing those terms to be
>defined by reference.  A number of W3C specs seems to be using this
>definition-by-reference as well, with the same RFC providing the
>actual definitions.
>
>I think we'd do well to accept a specific definition of these terms
>and use them consistently, simply to make our documentation
>(including docstrings) easier to understand.
>

How about defining a new deontic type with the values Must and
Should...? Hm. Doesn't make much sense, I guess :)

>
>  -Fred

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