[Python-Dev] Lockstep iteration - eureka!
Skip Montanaro
skip@mojam.com (Skip Montanaro)
Wed, 9 Aug 2000 11:40:27 -0500 (CDT)
>> Disadvantages:
>> It will break that one person's code that uses "indexing" as a
>> variable name.
Thomas> This needn't be true, if it's done in the same way as Tim
Thomas> proposed the 'form from import as as as' syntax change ;)
Could this be extended to many/most/all current instances of keywords in
Python? As Tim pointed out, Fortran has no keywords. It annoys me that I
(for example) can't define a method named "print".
Skip