Terry Reedy wrote: > "George Sakkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message >>So, who would object the full-word versions for python 3K ? >>def -> define >>del -> delete >>exec -> execute > > > These three I might prefer to keep. > > >>elif -> else if > > > This one I dislike and would prefer to write out. I never liked it in > whatever else language I first encountered it and still don't. > > Terry J. Reedy
Interesting, the exact opposite of what I was thinking. I don't use del and exec that often, so the long versions are fine to me. Define is ok for me too because it's usually done only once for each function or method so I'm not apt to have a lot of defines repeated in a short space like you would in C declarations. elif... I was thinking we should keep that one because it's used fairly often and having two keywords in sequence doesn't seem like it's the beat way to do it. Although it could be replaced with an 'andif' and 'orif' pair. The 'andif' would fall though like a C 'case', and the 'orif' would act just like the 'elif'. Actually this is a completely differnt subject reguarding flow testing verses value testing. Else and also would be the coorisponding end pair, but it seemed nobody really liked that idea when I suggested it a while back. <shrug> Cheers, Ron -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
