New PEP: The directive statement

[Joshua Marshall]

Delaney, Timothy <tdelaney at avaya.com> wrote:
> There are however, two things against this PEP.

> 1. It allows for one incompatible language change (directive as keyword can
> interfere with binding to name "directive" as the first line of a file).

Again (and parser-engineering aside), this does not need to cause any
backward-incompatibility.  The proposed syntax is not ambiguous.