On Dec 4, 4:43 am, Dennis Lee Bieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 4 Dec 2008 01:28:56 -0800, "Warren DeLano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: > > > In addition, note that my choice of a concise method identifier affects > > only my users. Python's introduction of a new keyword affects the > > entire Python world code base, so perhaps you should be directing your > > "choose better names" criticism in another direction? > > Dropping in... > > If a "chosen name" mirrors a syntactic element -- whether reserved > or not -- I'd consider that name potentially ambiguous or conflicted. > > While "if" has been long a reserved word, I can as easily see > someone using "if" as a shorthand name for "interface". And if "if" were > not a reserved word, one might encounter code on the lines of > > if = if + 1 > > which is quite obnoxious to my eyes... or maybe > > if if.connected: > if.close()
Does the OP hold the following should be legal? if if or or: and( for ) if not: while( def ) If not, it's an exception to Python's trend of not handcuffing programmers. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
