'Re: [Python-ideas] PEP 485: A Function For Testing Approximate ...

[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread] List: python-ideas Subject: Re: [Python-ideas] PEP 485: A Function for testing approximate equality From: Ethan Furman <ethan () stoneleaf ! us> Date: 2015-01-23 8:59:21 Message-ID: 54C20D69.9080702 () stoneleaf ! us [Download RAW message or body] [Attachment #2 (multipart/signed)] On 01/23/2015 12:06 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 04:40:14PM -0800, Chris Barker wrote: > > After much discussion on this list, I have written up a PEP, and it is > > ready for review (see below) > > I do not agree that it is ready for review. Why? If it has problems, how will he find out about them unless people read it and \ offer critiques? Or do you not refer to that process as reviewing? > I think you have rushed to decide that this needs a PEP, He asked if a PEP was needed, and one is. Worst-case scenario we have something to \ point the next floating-point closeness requester to. > rushed the preparation of the PEP, With over 100 messages to pull from, how was the preparation rushed? He should have \ taken a month to write it? > and now you have rushed the request for review. Um, what? He should have just sat on it for a couple weeks before asking people to \ look it over? Asking for a review is not the same as asking for a pronouncement; \ it's not even on python-dev yet. > What's the hurry? For one, Python 3.5 alpha one is just around the corner, and while there's still time \ after that the more eyeballs the better; for another, why wait? He has the \ information he needed, he collected it, made some decisions, and brought it back to \ the community. Ten days from the first floating point closeness message (14 if you \ count the float range class thread). A PEP also helps focus the conversation. > As it stands with the decisions you have made, I cannot support this PEP > even though I support the basic idea. Perhaps you feel rushed because you don't like it? -- ~Ethan~ ["signature.asc" (application/pgp-signature)] _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ [prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread] Configure | About | News | Add a list | Sponsored by KoreLogic