On Sun, 18 Dec 2011 13:47:46 -0600, Evan Driscoll wrote: [...] > so unless you're opposed to using an editor more > advanced than Notepad, you'll type in "varargs", it'll turn purple or > whatever, and you'll go "oh that's a keyword."
Not everybody uses editors more advanced than Notepad. Even those who do may not have an editor that understands Python keywords, or has an obsolete list of keywords (my editor of choice doesn't know about NotImplementedError). Or they're ssh'ed into a customer's server half-way across the world and using `ed` because that's the only thing available. The point is not that there can never been more keywords in Python, but that the burden of proof is on those asking for new keywords. By default, the status quo wins: http://www.boredomandlaziness.org/2011/02/status-quo-wins-stalemate.html -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
