On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 12:20 AM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote: > On May 14, 2012, at 10:04 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > >>As the subject line says, as Guido's delegate, I'm accepting >>Benjamin's PEP 415 with the current reference implementation. > > I'm glad to see this PEP get accepted. I have just minor quibbles :). > > Can you or Benjamin improve the title of the PEP? It's already difficult > enough to keep the mappings of PEP numbers to subjects in your head, even for > the subset of PEPs you track. Having a PEP title that refers to *another* PEP > number just makes things too confusing. How about: > > "Suppressing exception context via BaseException attribute" ? > > I also understand that PEP 415 is an elaboration of PEP 409, not a complete > replacement, however it seems wrong that PEP 409 does not even reference PEP > 415. > > Thus, while not a perfect solution, I suggest PEP 409 get a Superseded-By > header that points to 415. 415 should get a Replaces header that points to > 409. Then PEP 415 should get a section describing how the bulk of 409 is > still valid, except for blah blah blah. (IOW, include the still valid parts > of PEP 409 by reference.) Helping others follow the bouncing ball in the historical record makes sense to me - I'll make these tweaks this evening. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia
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