Doesn't ipython (the interactive shell) make this possible in some cases... not that's what you seem to be looking for exactly. Ben Racine
-----Original Message----- From: python-list-bounces+bjracine=glosten....@python.org [mailto:python-list-bounces+bjracine=glosten....@python.org] On Behalf Of Aaron Brady Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 10:14 AM To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: English-like Python On Jan 17, 6:10 pm, The Music Guy <music...@alphaios.net> wrote: > Wow, impressive responses. > > It sounds like the general consensus is that English would not be a > good choice for programming even if there were an interpreter capable > of turning human language into machine language. But that makes sense; > even English professionals have trouble understanding each other sometimes. > Until that problem is somehow overcome, there's not much hope of > computers to overcome it. I think it would be a good step if you could make some sensible interpretation of a typical statement without its parentheses. f "abc" 123 --> f( "abc", 123 ) It would be just the thing in a couple of situations... though it does conflict with raw-string literals as stated: r"abc"... which if you left open, would be susceptible to a local definition of r!. Maybe you could put it after, like numeric literals: 123L, "abc"r, which is not bad. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
