“I'm basically giving myself a permanent vacation from being BDFL”

Re:“I'm basically giving myself a permanent vacation from be... by 21 on Thursday July 12, 2018 @12:38PM (#17516284)

As someone who used Python for more than a decade, a few months ago when I saw PEP 572 and that Guido liked it I knew that it would be by far the most controversial one ever.

And I was very concerned that there was no outside community involvement. This is one where there should have been a lot of publicity around, and the community should have been asked (on r/python, r/programming, HN, ...)

It's sad to see this, but it's not surprising to me. In general the Python community at large accepted Guido's decisions, but this one was too much of a shock, and when the python-dev discussions where so heated, you can only imagine the response from outside.

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Re:“I'm basically giving myself a permanent vacation from be... by cowpig on Thursday July 12, 2018 @03:51PM (#17518056)

I honestly don't understand why it's so contentious, despite reading the lwn.net article about it[1]. It just looks like some syntactic sugar to me, and I've been in the position where not having that sugar has felt awkward many times writing python.

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/757713/

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