Call for signatories for J2

Michael Sparks zathras at thwackety.com
Fri Aug 27 05:08:02 EDT 2004


On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Anthony Baxter wrote:

> On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 20:14:33 +0100, Michael Sparks
> <zathras at thwackety.com> wrote:
>
...
> >    4 The feature might be ripped out
...
> That's not the way Python works - we don't rip stuff out once it's
> been in a final release. from __future__ is added so that people can
> turn on a new feature gradually, without their code being instantly
> broken.

I was meaning before 2.4's final release. I realise that the likelyhood of
this is about the same as Richard Stallman joining Microsoft as a patent
advocate, but in a world of infinite possibilities ... ;-)


Michael.




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