Reserved keywords in source: was RE: [Python-Dev] Assign to errno allowed?
Guido van Rossum
guido@python.org
Wed, 25 Sep 2002 11:32:00 -0400
> Oh that's the other problem I ran into.
>
> The core .c has a lot of
>
> goto finally;
>
>
> finally:
>
> In C mode, this shouldn't matter. But MS's EVT compiler considers
> "finally" to be a reserved word. I had to change all of these
> too. (I used local_finally or some such thing)
This compiler seems to fly in the face of the C std whenever it can.
What are they trying to accomplish?
--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)