On Tue, 9 Feb 2021, 8:18 am Terry Reedy, <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > > The one thing I think needs to be discussed and not been much, at least > not publicly that I have seen, is whether we really want to go down the > road of contextual keywords. There are some negatives as well as > positives. Just because the new parser makes them possible does not > mean we should. Do we really want to see 'match match:' or 'case > match...', etc?
As a hard keyword, the existence of "re.match()" would have almost certainly resulted in immediate rejection of the PEP. Where possible, should we retroactively make existing > keywords contextual? > The benefit of contextual keywords is being able to choose popular method/function/variable names as new keywords without a disruptive deprecation and migration process. That benefit doesn't apply to existing keywords. Cheers, Nick. >
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