[Tim Peters] > While "is" serves a useful purpose in Python, I wouldn't mind if it were > harder to spell. I think I would mind is `is' was harder to spell. `is' and `is not' are perfect as they stand, for me at least, and I do not remember ever having problems with these. The notation is clear, short and sweet. I mainly use `is' or `is not' for my own built objects, and systematically for the `None' object (but never for `False' or `True'). I know what is going on then. My feeling is that `is' only gets problematic when one tries to abuse it, so the problem might be more a question of attitude, than design. You cannot always force an attitude through design. The user-aimed documentation often makes all the difference. When the documentation tells me from the start what I should know, and helps me at sorting good and bad attitudes, it saves me from trouble and grief. -- François Pinard http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard
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