Talin

The way I would characterize the current dilemma is that explicitly marking stores has a number of compelling advantages - such as avoiding the "foot gun" problem; the major sticking...

This is a very interesting discussion. The idea of using a function parameter as a value pattern undercuts one of the proposed solutions for marking values: the use of a...

For marking loads, I don't really have a preference. I know that backticks were mentioned earlier, but I don't know if anyone specifically floated the idea of using backticks to...

Good points. There's one other idea I want to throw out there - again, I am just brainstorming here, don't expect me to put up a serious defense of any...

Note that even with the purist approach, there are ways to match an unqualified names, using either guards or custom matchers. I recognize that using it this way is quite...

I am -0.5 on using uppercase. One other variant I would propose is, rather than "Starts with a capital letter", instead "Contains no lowercase letters". I am not sure if...

I was worried that the SC might not reach a consensus on this issue - given the traffic on the python-dev lists, if you filter out the random suggestions and...

I had a similar thought to yours - it would be useful to know the impact of a specific decision on the SC consensus. It's not clear from reading the...

So Guido and I chatted on Zoom, and we decided that: 1) We will start a new Github issue for each of the major points brought up by the SC,...

These are all great comments. One idea for "selling" the PEP would be to make it easier for people to get their hands on the prototype implementation. I know we...