On Tue, 09 Dec 2008 08:30:26 -0800, Aaron Brady wrote: > The following are semantically equivalent: > > I certainly wouldn't want something like PL/I, where "IF", "THEN" and > "ELSE" could be identifiers. > > I wouldn't want something like PL/I, where "IF", "THEN" and "ELSE" could > be identifiers.
"Certainly" adds emphasis. You don't just mildly not want something like PL/I, but you really don't want it, so much so that you're amazed that anyone might have thought you did. The English language is very un-Pythonic. It especially breaks "Explicit is better than implicit" -- words have many implied connotations which are not necessarily found in dictionaries. For example, a "wise guy" and a "wise man" are not the same thing, even though a guy and a man are the same. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list