Re: Almost keywords

2008-07-21 Thread Duncan Booth
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > A possible way to avoid such bugs is to turn all those names like > "list", "map", "filter", "self", etc into keywords. But this may have > some disadvantages (well, I think I'd like to have "self" as keyword, > seen how all Python books strong suggest to not use a name

Almost keywords

2008-07-21 Thread bearophileHUGS
te that a widely used Scheme implementation, DrScheme, implements various sub-languages fit for newbies or almost-newbies or low- experienced programmers. What is possible for experts can be a syntax error for newbies. I don't like this feature much, I like more freedom, but for purely learning pur