
March 12, 2006
10 p.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