Any comments? My draft of a new PEP.

[Frederic Giacometti]

Gerhard,

Could you add 'protocol' to the reserved keyword list?

Thanks,

Frederic Giacometti

"Gerhard Häring" <gerhard.nospam at bigfoot.de> wrote in message
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> Something similar was proposed a few months ago. I've put it now into
PEP-form.
> This is only a rough draft. What do you think of it?
>
> If a few more people than just me think that this is a good idea I'll try
to
> submit this as a PEP.
>
> Gerhard
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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>
> PEP: <pep-no.>
> Title: Reserving Keywords For Possible Future Use
> Version: Python 2.2
> Author: gerhard at bigfoot.de (Gerhard Haering)
> Status: Draft of Draft
> Type: Standards track
> Created: 14-Aug-2001
> Post-History: <none>
>
> Abstract
>     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".
>
> Specification
>     These are the list of keywords reserved for possible future use:
>
>     abstract, directive, foreign, interface, static, yield
>
>     In Python 2.2, a warning will be emitted as soon as any of the above
is
>     used as an identifier, for example:
>
>     Warning: 'yield' will become a reserved keyword in the future
>
>     In Python 2.3, all of the above become reserved keywords, and using
them as
>     identifiers will generate a Syntax error.
>
> Rationale
>     If a new Python feature requires the introduction of a new keywords in
the
>     future and the keyword was in the set of keywords reserved for
possible
>     future use, the new feature can be made available immediately. There
will
>     be no need to make a "from __future import" statement during for one
Python
>     version iteration, like with the introduction of simple generators in
>     Python 2.2.
>
> Open Issues
>     Which keywords to reserve.
>
> Copyright
>
>     This document has been placed in the public domain.
>
>
>
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