Python Rocks!

tye4 tye4 at yahoo.com
Wed Jan 19 15:24:55 EST 2000


Fredrik Lundh <fredrik at pythonware.com> wrote in message
news:002401bf62b8$c30da8a0$f29b12c2 at secret.pythonware.com...
AC "tye4" <tye4 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> As time goes on, the code using 'end' will increase substantially while
the
> legacy code without 'end' will reduce.

so you mean that if you make 'end' optional, everyone
will add extra end statements to their code?

yeah, right...

Oh yes, they will. Failure to do so will result in barrage of 'warning'
messages from the compiler that they are using a 'deprecated' language
construct. (BTW, that's how Java implements gradual change in the language
and its library.)

-tye4





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