[Python-ideas] Make all keywords legal as an identifier

[Ethan Furman]

Brian Curtin wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 15:05, Mike Graham wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Brian Curtin wrote:
>>> Names tend to be nouns, so first I can't imagine why you'd want "with" as a
>>> name, but you could exchange almost all keywords in the example and it's not
>>> a great case. Making this change rather than working around poor name choice
>>> gets a -1 from me.
> 
>> To nitpick, names don't tend to be nouns only. Names of functions and
>> methods tend to be verbs and names of interfaces and abstract classes
>> are sometimes adjectives.
> 
> The point still stands regardless of my your nitpicking. "with" is a bad 
> name for any of those. As is try, raise, pass, import, break, True, etc.
> 

I can easily see several of those working fine for boolean names.

Still -1 to the idea, though.

~Ethan~