text_combined: lennart regebro hyiffbigmailcom sun mar 23 2008 213 pm thomas wouters wrote always assumption also idea 26 27 would much rather 30 isnt widely accepted years longer cluttered backward compatibility crap even rather widely used code riddled guido end sure bit misleading risk isnt 30 widely accepted quickly risk community splits two suggestion backwards compatibility 30 forwards compatibility 26 question rather want disk community split add forwards compatibility noted turns necessary add forwards compatibility always possible 27 loads experience writing code evolving apis things done zope community years problem lead fragile code lennart regebro zope plone consulting httpwwwcollibertycom 33 661 58 14 64 _______________________________________________ pythondev mailing list zvlllneumpythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopythondev unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspythondevpythondev40tangomucom wed 06 aug 2008 220848 0100 pythondev proposal __future__ import unicode_string_literals