[Python-Dev] Set the namespace free! (original) (raw)

Isaac Morland ijmorlan at uwaterloo.ca
Thu Jul 22 14:46:27 CEST 2010


On Thu, 22 Jul 2010, Bartosz Tarnowski wrote:

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My proposal: let's make a syntax change.

I'm pretty sure this belongs on python-ideas.

Let all reserved words be preceded with some symbol, i.e. "!" (exclamation mark). This goes also for standard library global identifiers.

!for boo in foo: !if boo is !None: !print(hoo) !else: !return !sorted(woo)

Is today April 1st?

Seriously, an identifier-quoting capability like PostgreSQL has wouldn't necessarily be a bad idea, but would be a topic for python-ideas, not here on python-dev.

Isaac Morland CSCF Web Guru DC 2554C, x36650 WWW Software Specialist



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