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

Alex Light scialexlight at gmail.com
Thu Jul 22 16:57:15 CEST 2010

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Bartosz Tarnowski < bartosz-tarnowski at zlotniki.pl> wrote:

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) A) this should be in the 'ideas' list B) it will never ever happen. not only does it have very few benefits it makes every single piece of python code ever written invalid and it is a bad idea to arbitrarily add punctuation to the language. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20100722/370c727a/attachment.html>

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