On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 08:26:47PM -0600, Nathan Torkington wrote:
I've been eyeing your 'import from the future' system of getting experimental features. I'll be interested to see how this holds up.
It's really not that different form Perl's "use". They're both scanned for by the parser/tokenizer, they're both used to change the semantics of an operation, and they also double as a normal 'get and use a package' operation (which is, in fact, the primary task of 'import' and 'use' both, right ? :) The main difference is that changing the behaviour of the Python interpreter is a lot less common than changing the behaviour of the Perl one, and Guido wants to keep it that way. The purpously 'magic' spelling of the future-import statement is part of that. -- Thomas Wouters <thomas@xs4all.net> Hi! I'm a .signature virus! copy me into your .signature file to help me spread!