There is really nothing in the e-mail that indicates that.
I can only imagine the message it would send to recall the PEP. I guess it would confirm his decision in a most callous way.
Guido wrote the principles of Python, the principles should outlive his reign. :-)
That really isn't a fair comparison. This is about one person, not two opposing groups.
Downvoting was, long ago, supposed to be used to indicate trolling, incivility, not substantive, etc. Sometime recently, dang and sctb have ruled that downvoting for disagreement is now perfectly acceptable.
In any event, I agree it's become a terrible method of hivemind enforcement. Have an upvote.
You are wrong about that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171
As pg’s 2008 quote shows, that assertion is wrong.
Whether it should change now is a separate issue, but there seems to be no mood for that among the more active contributors to HN.
To me, it seems a restricted variant on the specific cases "if" and "while" would be good enough, without generalizing to more cases.
The exemples of assignment with "all()" and "any()" make me sad. Python had only one way of doing things, now it has two.
Reading Python code will be more complicated now than it was 10 years ago for newcomers
Edit : I'm sick of all the downvotes on HN. Everytime we post an opinion against the consensus, it ruins the karma, even if the comment is honest. And of course, I can't downvote people, since people keep downvoting me, I never reach the threshold to vote against any comment. The system is unfair to newcomers.