On 2006-09-14, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 07:45:02 +0000, Antoon Pardon wrote: > >>>> 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. > > [snip] > >> <Shrug>, Different options are possible, in a file the keywords >> could just be prefixed with a Ctrl-K, and depending on the editor or its >> setting, this could be shown bold or blue or whatever. I don't care >> about the specifics at this point. I just wanted to make clear there >> is the option to make/show the distiction between identifiers and keywords >> more explicitly. > > But surely all you are doing is changing the reserved word from (say) > "return" to "\x0breturn". Once you do that, you can bet that people will > complain that they want to have identifiers in bold too, why can't they > create a name "\x0breturn", and somebody will come up with an even more > complicated scheme for accommodating them... wash, rinse, repeat.
Do you really think this is a serious possibility? As far as I can see, that \x0b that will be prepended to differentiate keywords from identifiers is a technique called stropping, that has been used with some algol languages. Have you any knowledge of people programming algol who asked for the use of stropped identifiers? I think I really would be amazed to find out there were such people, but then I have been amazed before. So I really would like to know. -- Antoon Pardon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
