J2 decorator grammar
Ville Vainio
ville at spammers.com
Mon Aug 23 14:00:55 EDT 2004
>>>>> "Francois" == François Pinard <pinard at iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
Francois> I'm not especially crusading for `with', but it has the
Francois> advantage that it will likely become a keyword in some
Francois> later version of Python, and likely also, will be used
Francois> in `with SOMETHING:' and not barely as `with:'.
Francois> Reserving a keyword is a lengthy process, like it was
Francois> demonstrated by the progressive implementation of
Francois> `yield'. So using `with' here would be a nice
Francois> investment for the future in that regard.
If that is an advantage rather than drawback (i.e. BDFL doesn't
disagree w/ 'with' having a dual purpose), I'm all for 'with'. The
less keywords we have, the better.
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