PEP 572 and decision-making in Python

Posted Jun 21, 2018 5:10 UTC (Thu) by marcH (subscriber, #57642)
Parent article: PEP 572 and decision-making in Python

> But Barry Warsaw believes that PEP 572 is an outlier. Since it changes the syntax of the language, people tend to focus on that without understanding the deeper semantic issues.

Would it have helped to decouple the two (or three, four...) questions and proceed in incremental stages? I mean discussing and voting incomplete-by-design PEPs like: 1. semantics; 2. syntax; 3. lex. Earlier PEPs could be approved even with abstract/incomplete content like for instance this:

if ( x :TBD= 5)