Waffling between Python and Ruby

[Tim Rowe]

In article <394832DB.B41948AB at san.rr.com>, jkraska1 at san.rr.com 
(Courageous) wrote:

> I somewhat wish python had Ruby's/Lisp's :THIS-IS-A-KEYWORD syntax. 
> Would
> be nice. Rule: any single run of characters not seperated by whitespace
> and beginning with a colon is treated like a Python interned string.

Don't like it. Unhappy memories of ALGOL's single-quote delimited keywords 
like 'THIS'.