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What's the point of saying that a standard library feature was not added soon enough? Nobody can go back in time and add it earlier. I can complain to death abo
by will4274 7y ago
What's the point of saying that a standard library feature was not added soon enough? Nobody can go back in time and add it earlier. I can complain to death about features missing from C++11 or I can start using C++14.
- pfranz 7y agoI think the point is that if those things in stdlib were external packages then older versions of the language would be easier to support because you could just update the package. I think the way it was phrased made it really easy to misunderstand. I think this goes to her point of Twisted wanting to support really old versions of Python and they would be a lot more comfortable not supporting really old versions of packages.
- llukas 7y agoSo they can keep python 2 on life support longer? That is not a good idea.
- detaro 7y agoIf that happens regularly, it makes stdlib less useful for other libraries to build upon, forcing them into (sometimes awkward) workarounds, and is a sign of the stdlib not getting enough maintenance.