"as" keyword woes

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Tue, 09 Dec 2008 08:30:26 -0800, Aaron Brady wrote:

> The following are semantically equivalent:
> 
> I certainly wouldn't want something like PL/I, where "IF", "THEN" and
> "ELSE" could be identifiers.
> 
> I wouldn't want something like PL/I, where "IF", "THEN" and "ELSE" could
> be identifiers.

"Certainly" adds emphasis. You don't just mildly not want something like 
PL/I, but you really don't want it, so much so that you're amazed that 
anyone might have thought you did.

The English language is very un-Pythonic. It especially breaks "Explicit 
is better than implicit" -- words have many implied connotations which 
are not necessarily found in dictionaries. For example, a "wise guy" and 
a "wise man" are not the same thing, even though a guy and a man are the 
same.



-- 
Steven