>
> !for boo in foo:
!if boo is !None:
!print(hoo)
!else:
!return !sorted(woo)
I feel most people could not bear such a difficult syntax. Why have I to
type so much '!'s ?
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 10:04 PM, Bartosz Tarnowski <
[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hello, guys.
>
> Python has more and more reserved words over time. It becomes quite
> annoying, since you can not use variables and attributes of such names.
> Suppose I want to make an XML parser that reads a document and returns an
> object with attributes corresponding to XML element attributes:
>
> > elem = parse_xml("<element param='boo'/>")
> > print elem.param
> boo
>
> What should I do then, when the attribute is a reserver word? I could use
> trailing underscore, but this is quite ugly and introduces ambiguity.
>
> > elem = parse_xml("<element for='each'/>")
> > print elem.for_ #?????
> > elem = parse_xml("<element for_='each'/>")
> > print elem.for__ #?????
>
> My proposal: let's make a syntax change.
>
> Let all reserved words be preceded with some symbol, i.e. "!" (exclamation
> mark). This goes also for standard library global identifiers.
>
> !for boo in foo:
> !if boo is !None:
> !print(hoo)
> !else:
> !return !sorted(woo)
>
>
> This would allow the user to declare any identifier with any name:
>
> for = with(return) + try
>
> What do you think of it? It is a major change, but I think Python needs it.
>
> --
> haael
>
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