Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com>: > On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 9:10 AM, Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> wrote: >> Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com>: >> >>> I completely agree with you that the keyword should mean >>> "write-once" or "never rebind". >> >> That would be possible. I'm afraid that would result in people >> sprinkling these "constant" keywords everywhere to make the program >> supposedly run faster. -- Something like that has happened with the >> "final" keyword in some Java houses. >> >> That would prevent the ad hoc installation of wrappers, debugging >> tools etc. > > Hmm. I wonder if it should be like "assert" - nobody ever should > depend 100% on it, but it's a hint back to the interpreter that you > should never be rebinding this.
Just wait and see what will happen. BTW, Java's "final" keyword is additionally used to declare that a method is not overridden. I once worked in a Java company where the policy was to declare *everything* final until you knew that you needed to inherit. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
