Anybody working on a PEP308 summary?

Michele Simionato mis6 at pitt.edu
Sun Feb 9 08:40:49 EST 2003


Carlos Ribeiro <cribeiro at mail.inet.com.br> wrote in message news:<mailman.1044753506.6485.python-list at python.org>...
> To everyone,
> 
> After reading 300+ messages regarding PEP308 (including a few ones off list), 
> I would like to know if someone offered himself to write a summary of the 
> main arguments, pro and contra. It would be nice to have someone neutral 
> working on it. As for myself, I'm already too involved with the +1 field to 
> write it :-)
> 
> That said, is someone doing it? I know it's a lot of work, but it would be 
> really helpful.
> 
> p.s: It seems that the list is choking under load, or it is experiencing some 
> network-related problem, because it was never so slow before. Any news on 
> this?
> 
> 
> Carlos Ribeiro
> cribeiro at mail.inet.com.br

I think the people against the ternary operator should write down a
summary of their objections, wherea the people favorable to the ternary
operator should decide which form they prefer.

I would like people to be able to choose their field between different
categories, such as

1) I am against in any case
2) I don't care, I am neutral
3) I am pro only if this or that form is used
4) I am fine with Guido's proposal

I would like to see a statistics to have an idea of the feelings of the
community. I can not judge from the current threads the percentage.

Maybe somebody could set up a Web page to perform the statistics.

Then, if enough people are pro (which I am not sure will be the case),
we should choose which proposal is the good one for everybody (and I
am not sure we can reach an agreement).




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