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date-created: 2020 January 1
date-last-revised: 2020 January 1
date-accepted: 2020 January 1
status: Discussion
The abstract should be a short description of what the proposal will achieve.
This section describes the need for the proposal. It should describe the existing problem that it is trying to solve and why this proposal makes the situation better. It should include examples of how the new functionality would be used and perhaps some use cases.
Any pull requests or development branches containing work on this proposal should be linked to from here. (A proposal does not need to be implemented in a single pull request if it makes sense to implement it in discrete phases). If no code is yet implemented, just put "N/A"
This section lists the major steps required to implement the proposal. Where possible, it should be noted where one step is dependent on another, and which steps may be optionally omitted. Where it makes sense, each step should include a link related pull requests as the implementation progresses.
This section describes the ways in which the APE breaks backward compatibility.
If there were any alternative solutions to solving the same problem, they should be discussed here, along with a justification for the chosen approach.