On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 08:26:47PM -0600, Nathan Torkington wrote: > I've been eyeing your 'import from the future' system of getting > experimental features. I'll be interested to see how this holds up. It's really not that different form Perl's "use". They're both scanned for by the parser/tokenizer, they're both used to change the semantics of an operation, and they also double as a normal 'get and use a package' operation (which is, in fact, the primary task of 'import' and 'use' both, right ? :) The main difference is that changing the behaviour of the Python interpreter is a lot less common than changing the behaviour of the Perl one, and Guido wants to keep it that way. The purpously 'magic' spelling of the future-import statement is part of that. -- Thomas Wouters <thomas@xs4all.net> Hi! I'm a .signature virus! copy me into your .signature file to help me spread!
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