"Dave Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 16:42:34 -0500, Terry Hancock > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >On Sunday 09 October 2005 07:50 am, phil hunt wrote: > >> On Fri, 7 Oct 2005 01:05:12 -0500, Terry Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >GvR's syntax has the advantage of making grammatical sense in English > >> >(i.e. > >> >reading it as written pretty much makes sense). > >> > >> I know, let's re-write Python to make it more like COBOL! That's > >> bound to be a winner! > > > >Whereas the "natural order" of "condition affirmative negative" is natural > >for what reason? That it is so in C? > > And Basic, and Fortran, and Lisp, and just about any programming > language you care to name, including python (if Condition: Affirmative > else: Negative).
Block delimiters (curly braces, if/fi, begin/end, etc.) are also in just about any language but this didn't stop python using indentation instead, so what's your point ? Conformity and backwards compatibility should not be top priorities in language design; fortunately for python, they're not. George -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
