On Thu, 20 Feb 2014 12:22:29 +0200, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com>: > >> In working on a proposal that might result in the creation of a new >> keyword, > > I'm looking forward to the day when every application can add its own > keywords as is customary in Lisp.
And what a wonderful day that will be! Reading any piece of code you didn't write yourself -- or wrote a long time ago -- will be an adventure! Every script will have it's own exciting new set of keywords doing who knows what, which makes every script nearly it's own language! Oh joy, I cannot wait! That's sarcasm, by the way. >> I needed to ascertain what names were used extensively in existing >> Python code > > One advantage of Perl is that names and keywords are in separate > namespaces so introducing new keywords is easy. Then I can write code like: for for in in: while while: if if: raise raise which will go a long way to ensuring that my code is an hostile and unreadable as possible. (Sometimes, less can be more. That's especially true of programming languages.) -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list