Any comments? My draft of a new PEP.

[Gerhard Häring]

On Thu, 16 Aug 2001 22:44:34 GMT, Courageous <jkraska1 at san.rr.com> wrote:
>>    [me]
>>    To avoid long transition periods when a new Python feature requires a new
>>    keyword, this PEP proposes to reserve a set of keywords "in advance".
>
> A good idea overall, IMO.
>
>>    abstract, directive, foreign, interface, static, yield
>
>I think we'd have to talk seriously about _which_ keywords, and peronally
>believe that Guido and team should handle the whole thing.

I agree. But they should IMHO reserve any keywords they might possible use in
future versions in a bunch. This would avoid from __future__ kludges and reduce
the temptation of "clever" reusing of existing keywords.

Gerhard
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