On Jul 6, 1:12 pm, "Hendrik van Rooyen" <m...@microcorp.co.za> wrote: > "Terry Reedy" <t....@..el.edu> wrote: > > Gabriel Genellina wrote: > > > > In this case, a note in the documentation warning about the potential > > > confusion would be fine. > > > How would that help someone who does not read the doc? > > It obviously won't. > > All it will do, is that it will enable people on this group, > who may read the manual, to tell people who complain, > to RTFM. > > I agree that it would be a good idea to make it an > error, or a warning - "this might not do what you > think it does", or an "are you sure?" exception. > > :-) > > - Hendrik
I dunno. Specifically recognizing (and emitting code code for) a token that's not actually part of the language because people coming from other languages think it exists seems like the start of a fustercluck. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
