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Tue Mar 4 23:24:13 CET 2008 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-March/077413.html

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org> wrote:
> Georg Brandl writes:
>   > You speak my mind. For ages I've wanted to put the builtins together with
>   > the language reference into a new document called "Python Core Language".
>   > I've just never had the time to draft a serious proposal.
>
>  I think that combination is reasonable, but I would like to see the
>  clear division between the language (ie, the syntax) and the built-in
>  functionality maintained.  I'm not sure I like the proposed title for
>  that reason.

Such a division would make it unnecessarily hard to find documentation
on True, False, None, etc.  They've become keywords for pragmatic
purposes (to prevent accidental modification), not because we think
they ideally should be syntax instead of builtins.

-- 
Adam Olsen, aka Rhamphoryncus

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