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| From | Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> |
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| Subject | Re: Stop writing Python 4 incompatible code |
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Chris Angelico wrote: > and 3.X would wreak havoc with people's heads. The danger there is that 3.X would sound so cool (everything is cooler with an X in it) that nobody would want to move past it. So after 3.X we would get 3.X.1, ... and then 3.X.X.1, ... At some point people would start abbreviating those in terms of powers of X, so the general format of a version number would become 3.X**m.n where 0 <= n < X. -- Greg
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Stop writing Python 4 incompatible code Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2016-01-13 18:30 +1100
Re: Stop writing Python 4 incompatible code sjmsoft@gmail.com - 2016-01-13 06:21 -0800
Re: Stop writing Python 4 incompatible code Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> - 2016-01-13 11:25 -0500
Re: Stop writing Python 4 incompatible code Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-01-14 11:10 +1100
Re: Stop writing Python 4 incompatible code Bernardo Sulzbach <mafagafogigante@gmail.com> - 2016-01-13 22:40 -0200
Re: Stop writing Python 4 incompatible code Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-01-14 12:02 +1100
Re: Stop writing Python 4 incompatible code Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2016-01-13 18:24 -0700
Re: Stop writing Python 4 incompatible code Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-01-13 21:39 -0500
Re: Stop writing Python 4 incompatible code Gene Heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com> - 2016-01-13 21:59 -0500
Re: Stop writing Python 4 incompatible code Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-01-14 07:41 -0500
Re: Stop writing Python 4 incompatible code Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2016-01-14 14:43 +0100
Re: Stop writing Python 4 incompatible code "D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <darcy@VybeNetworks.com> - 2016-01-14 08:47 -0500
Re: Stop writing Python 4 incompatible code Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2016-01-14 16:32 +0100
Re: Stop writing Python 4 incompatible code "D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <darcy@VybeNetworks.com> - 2016-01-14 10:47 -0500
Re: Stop writing Python 4 incompatible code Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2016-01-14 17:52 +0100
Re: Stop writing Python 4 incompatible code Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2016-01-15 16:08 +1300
Re: Stop writing Python 4 incompatible code Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-01-15 15:56 +1100
Re: Stop writing Python 4 incompatible code Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2016-01-16 10:02 +1300
Re: Stop writing Python 4 incompatible code Bernardo Sulzbach <mafagafogigante@gmail.com> - 2016-01-15 09:40 -0200
Re: Stop writing Python 4 incompatible code Robin Koch <robin.koch@t-online.de> - 2016-01-15 19:29 +0100
Re: Stop writing Python 4 incompatible code Bernardo Sulzbach <mafagafogigante@gmail.com> - 2016-01-15 16:43 -0200
Re: Stop writing Python 4 incompatible code Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2016-01-13 19:53 -0500
Re: Stop writing Python 4 incompatible code Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2016-01-13 17:02 -0800
Re: Stop writing Python 4 incompatible code Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-01-14 12:29 +1100
Re: Stop writing Python 4 incompatible code Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2016-01-13 19:11 -0700
Re: Stop writing Python 4 incompatible code Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2016-01-13 18:51 -0800
Re: Stop writing Python 4 incompatible code Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-01-14 14:08 +1100
Re: Stop writing Python 4 incompatible code Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2016-01-13 19:29 -0800
Re: Stop writing Python 4 incompatible code Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2016-01-13 22:18 -0700
Re: Stop writing Python 4 incompatible code Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2016-01-14 07:30 -0800
Re: Stop writing Python 4 incompatible code Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-01-15 04:41 +1100
Re: Stop writing Python 4 incompatible code Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2016-01-14 10:40 -0800
Re: Stop writing Python 4 incompatible code <paul.hermeneutic@gmail.com> - 2016-01-14 13:16 -0700
Re: Stop writing Python 4 incompatible code Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-01-15 09:04 +1100
Re: Stop writing Python 4 incompatible code Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2016-01-14 15:16 -0800
Re: Stop writing Python 4 incompatible code Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2016-01-14 19:16 +1100
Re: Stop writing Python 4 incompatible code wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2016-01-14 01:37 -0800
Re: Stop writing Python 4 incompatible code Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2016-01-14 00:45 -0500
Re: Stop writing Python 4 incompatible code Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2016-01-14 07:52 -0800
Re: Stop writing Python 4 incompatible code Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2016-01-14 15:52 -0700
Re: Stop writing Python 4 incompatible code Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2016-01-14 15:55 -0800
Re: Stop writing Python 4 incompatible code Emile van Sebille <emile@fenx.com> - 2016-01-15 06:52 -0800
Re: Stop writing Python 4 incompatible code Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2016-01-16 09:49 +1300
Re: Stop writing Python 4 incompatible code Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2016-01-15 14:34 -0800
Re: Stop writing Python 4 incompatible code Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2016-01-15 13:45 -0800
Re: Stop writing Python 4 incompatible code William Ray Wing <wrw@mac.com> - 2016-01-15 12:02 -0500
Re: Stop writing Python 4 incompatible code Bernardo Sulzbach <mafagafogigante@gmail.com> - 2016-01-15 16:09 -0200
Re: Stop writing Python 4 incompatible code Alister <alister.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2016-01-15 18:46 +0000
Re: Stop writing Python 4 incompatible code Bernardo Sulzbach <mafagafogigante@gmail.com> - 2016-01-15 16:55 -0200
Re: Stop writing Python 4 incompatible code Alister <alister.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2016-01-16 14:41 +0000
Re: Stop writing Python 4 incompatible code Bernardo Sulzbach <mafagafogigante@gmail.com> - 2016-01-16 12:48 -0200
Re: Stop writing Python 4 incompatible code paul.hermeneutic@gmail.com - 2016-01-16 09:08 -0700
Re: Stop writing Python 4 incompatible code William Ray Wing <wrw@mac.com> - 2016-01-16 13:00 -0500
Re: Stop writing Python 4 incompatible code Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2016-01-16 12:26 -0700
Re: Stop writing Python 4 incompatible code Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-01-17 13:43 +1100
Re: Stop writing Python 4 incompatible code William Ray Wing <wrw@mac.com> - 2016-01-15 13:49 -0500
Re: Stop writing Python 4 incompatible code Bernardo Sulzbach <mafagafogigante@gmail.com> - 2016-01-15 16:53 -0200
Re: Stop writing Python 4 incompatible code Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-01-15 20:58 +0000
Re: Stop writing Python 4 incompatible code Christopher Reimer <christopher_reimer@icloud.com> - 2016-01-15 14:09 -0800
Re: Stop writing Python 4 incompatible code Christopher Reimer <christopher_reimer@icloud.com> - 2016-01-16 20:51 -0800
Re: Stop writing Python 4 incompatible code Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-01-14 03:38 +1100
Re: Stop writing Python 4 incompatible code Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2016-01-14 10:38 +1300
Re: Stop writing Python 4 incompatible code Bernardo Sulzbach <mafagafogigante@gmail.com> - 2016-01-13 19:46 -0200
Re: Stop writing Python 4 incompatible code BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-01-14 01:02 +0000
Re: Stop writing Python 4 incompatible code Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-01-14 12:21 +1100
Re: Stop writing Python 4 incompatible code BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-01-14 01:49 +0000
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