PEP 308: Pep Update

Piet van Oostrum piet at cs.uu.nl
Tue Mar 11 08:03:04 EST 2003


>>>>> "Greg Ewing (using news.cis.dfn.de)" <me at privacy.net> (GE) wrote:

GE> Bernhard Herzog wrote:
>> "Greg Ewing (using news.cis.dfn.de)" <me at privacy.net> writes:
>> 
>>> A minor correction: "else" is not currently a reserved
>> AFAIK, it has always been a reserved word. How could it not be?

GE> Sorry, brain failure. I must have been thinking of
GE> "then", which has the unusual property of being a
GE> reserved word in most other languages in which
GE> "if" is also a reserved word, but not in Python.

Not in C, C++, Java, Perl (I think).
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