13 Mar
2006
13 Mar
'06
3:30 a.m.
Guido van Rossum wrote:
I don't see why everything that doesn't make sense to be shadowed ought to become a keyword.
That wasn't the reason. I was thinking it would be nice if one could use True and False instead of 1 and 0 in the knowledge that it wasn't costing a couple of dictionary lookups.
However, if a more general way is found of optimising global lookups, this may become a non-issue.
Greg