On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 7:11 AM Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> wrote:
Where possible, should we retroactively make existing keywords contextual?
The benefit of contextual keywords is being able to choose popular method/function/variable names as new keywords without a disruptive deprecation and migration process. That benefit doesn't apply to existing keywords.
No, but it would have the benefit of allowing existing keywords to be reused where it makes sense; a recent example I came across is the Tcl/Tk interface -- Tk has a method named
raise, but it has to be renamed to tkraise because of the keyword clash (it's also given aliftalias).
This is a reasonable idea, with definite pros and cons. I recommend starting a separate thread about that.
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