[Types-sig] separate files (was: Sorry!)

[Greg Stein]

On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Edward Welbourne wrote:
> >> Hmm, I'm not sure I read Guido's
> >>> I think that any proposal that requires you to keep two separate files
> >>> "in sync" is bound to fail in the long term. I left that crap behind
> >>> in C++. But in the short term...okay.
> > I didn't write the inner quote.
> 
> Oops - sorry: in fact, that was Paul (drawback of snatching a look at
> the threaded list during compiles and such) on
> http://www.python.org/pipermail/types-sig/1999-December/000617.html
> 
> >From that being Paul, I guess I should infer that the answer to the
> question I posed later would be that the two-file scheme is a `for the
> present' idea, which greatly reduces my twitchiness about it.

But I don't think anybody should be planning on 2.0 to resolve things.
That is at least two or three years away, if I'm not mistaken.

I think we need an inline syntax in the 1.x series. I like Tim's approach
so far; it seems like it should work although I might suggest some tweaks.

Cheers,
-g

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Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/