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[Python-Dev] Set the namespace free!

[Python-Dev] Set the namespace free!Georg Brandl g.brandl at gmx.net
Fri Jul 23 03:46:01 CEST 2010
Am 22.07.2010 21:49, schrieb Reid Kleckner:
> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Alexander Belopolsky
> <alexander.belopolsky at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 12:53 PM,  <gregory.smith3 at sympatico.ca> wrote:
>>> I'm very amused by all the jokes about turning python into perl, but there's
>>> a good idea here that doesn't actually require that...
>>
>> No, there isn't.  And both '&' and '|' are valid python operators that
>> cannot be used this way.
>>
>> If you want ::, I think you can find a language or two to your liking. :-)
> 
> A syntax for escaping reserved words used as identifiers is a worthy
> and interesting idea, but I don't think it's worth adding to Python.

Exactly.  Such a feature is much more needed for languages that don't
feature globals(), getattr() and __dict__s.

Georg

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