Fedora ponders the Python 2 end game

Posted Aug 11, 2017 16:27 UTC (Fri) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: Fedora ponders the Python 2 end game by smoogen
Parent article: Fedora ponders the Python 2 end game

And silly little changes to the spec cause major difficulties with the code. For example, try the following fortran code ...

FOR I = 1 TO 0
do something
NEXT I

How many times will that "do something"? If it's standards-compliant FORTRAN, it'll do it once. If it's standards-compliant Fortran, it won't do it at all.

Upgrading code between language specifications can be a nightmare of booby traps ...

Cheers,
Wol