On Dec 9, 12:40 pm, MRAB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Aaron Brady wrote: > > On Dec 9, 8:28 am, MRAB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > snip > >> In some languages (I think Delphi is one of them - it's been a while!) > >> some words which would normally be identifiers have a special meaning in > >> certain contexts, but the syntax precludes any ambiguity, and not in a > >> difficult way. "as" in Python was one of those. > > >> I certainly wouldn't want something like PL/I, where "IF", "THEN" and > >> "ELSE" could be identifiers, so you could have code like: > > >> IF IF = THEN THEN > >> THEN = ELSE; > >> ELSE > >> ELSE = IF; > > >> Seehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PL/I_(programming_language). > > snip > > That is, 'certainly' doesn't change the meaning of your statement > > any. You wouldn't want it, but King George III didn't want the > > American Revolution. > > It's called emphasis.
I just take you to have meant, then, +1 on excluding keywords from identifiers. You said it the long way though, so I thought I missed something deeper, that didn't come across. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
