On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 9:10 AM, Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> wrote: > Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com>: > >> I completely agree with you that the keyword should mean "write-once" >> or "never rebind". > > That would be possible. I'm afraid that would result in people > sprinkling these "constant" keywords everywhere to make the program > supposedly run faster. -- Something like that has happened with the > "final" keyword in some Java houses. > > That would prevent the ad hoc installation of wrappers, debugging tools > etc.
Hmm. I wonder if it should be like "assert" - nobody ever should depend 100% on it, but it's a hint back to the interpreter that you should never be rebinding this. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
