On Jan 25, 2008 8:13 AM, Jameson Chema Quinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm writing a source code editor that translates identifiers and keywords > on-screen into a different natural language. This tool will do no > transformations except at the reversible word level. There is one simple, > avoidable case where this results in nonsense in many languages: "is not". I > propose allowing "not is" as an acceptable alternative to "is not". > > Obviously English syntax has a deep influence on python syntax, and I would > never propose deeper syntactical changes for natural-language-compatibility. > This is a trivial change, one that is still easily parseable by an > English-native mind (and IMO actually makes more sense logically, since it > does not invite confusion with the nonsensical "is (not ...)"). The > use-cases where you have to grep for "is not" are few, and the "(is > not)|(not is)" pattern that would replace it is still pretty simple.
"not is" makes no sense to -- and is not easily parsed by -- my English-native mind. Collin Winter _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com