On 2006-09-13, Paul Rubin <http> wrote: > Antoon Pardon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> This is just an idea of mine, nothing I expect python to adapt. >> But just suppose the language allowed for words in bold. A word >> in bold would be considered a reserved word, a word in non bold >> would be an identifier. > > Heh, sounds like ColorForth, in which words meant different things > depending on what color they were written in (www.colorforth.com). > Madness, if you ask me ;-).
Well I'm sure people would be able the abuse the feature with madness as a result. However that is nothing new. One place where I would use such a feature is in a unittest package. I think being able to write self.assert or self.raise looks better than having to append an underscore. I once experimented with end markers in python, but I dropped it because end.if wasn't legal python. If python would make this distinction, one wouldn't need to be concerned anymore that the introduction of a new keyword would break code. -- Antoon Pardon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
