> It derives in turn from SETL, which followed common set-theoretic > notation. This "grabbed" Guido; LISP spellings never did, and I bet > never will. I've never used or even seen SETL, but there is a connection: SETL had a profound influence on the designers of ABC, in particular Lambert Meertens, who spent a sabbatical year working with the folks at New York University who wrote the first validated Ada compiler in SETL. (http://www.faqs.org/faqs/computer-lang/Ada/comp-lang-ada/part2/ question 4.2.2, to save you the Google search.) I happen to have a standing invitation to come give a talk there... Since I'm posting in this thread anyway, I am with Tim -- I like Greg Ewing's proposed syntax best, for the reasons Tim stated. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.pythonlabs.com/~guido/)
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