Ulrich: If you take a look at pep 3105 you find five rationales. http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3105/#rationale
If the first were the only one then your suggestion would have merit. There are also the other 4 in which pass and print dont really correspond. Steven wrote earlier: > I have an axe that has been passed down for generations through my > family, from my father, his father before him, and his father, and his > father before him. Occasionally we replace the handle, or put on a new > head, but that axe is almost as good as the day my great-great- > grandfather made it. Yeah I see that you are always wielding your great-great-grandfather's axe. As for example On Jul 26, 7:38 am, Steven D'Aprano <steve +comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > (Actually, I reckon that what is driving this idea is that the OP is a > beginner, and he's got a syntax error a few times from writing "pass()", > and so he thought it would be easier to force other people to change tens > or hundreds of thousands of Python programs to use "pass()" instead of > "pass" than to just learn to stop putting parentheses after it. I > remember what it was like to be a beginner with six weeks experience in a > twenty year old language, full of shiny new ideas for "improving" it.) Do you sharpen it sometimes? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
