"as" keyword woes

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:15:21 -0800, Matimus wrote:

>> Couldn't we have continued along just fine using a smarter parser
>> without elevating "as" to reserved status (and thus potentially
>> breaking a 10+ years of existing code)?
> 
> Nothing broke your code. It works just fine under the version it was
> developed for. Who forced you to upgrade to python2.6?

Be reasonable. Python 2.5 is not very far away from being put into 
"security updates only" mode, and in a year or so it won't even get 
security updates. I dare say there are already platforms that use Python 
2.6 as standard. Tying your software to an obsolete version of a language 
is a good way to force your software into obsolescence.

Not that 2.5 is obsolete *now*. But it will be soon (for some definition 
of soon): in no more than a year or three, software that only runs on 
Python 2.5 would be like software that only runs on 2.3 now.



-- 
Steven