On Mar 6, 2008, at 5:56 PM, Hector Villafuerte wrote:
> >> On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 12:53 PM, Jason Grout >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... >>> What does "reserved words" mean? Do you mean that we should >>> throw an >>> error when those variables are assigned? I don't think that >>> would be >>> possible without some deep tinkering in python. > > > Hi Jason, > Yep, that's what I meant (reserved words, aka keywords); to expect > behavior like this: > > sage: lambda = 5 > Syntax Error: > lambda = 5 That one *does* currently give a syntax error, because lambda really is a python keyword. But there aren't too many python keywords. Off the top of my head: for in not and or is yield raise finally except return pass import if while print def lambda Well that was a fun game..... like trying to name all the 50 states in the U.S..... david --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
