On 4/29/05, Reinhold Birkenfeld wrote:

Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 00:53:12 +0200 From: Reinhold Birkenfeld <reinhold-birkenfeld-nospam@wolke7.net> Subject: [Python-Dev] Re: PEP 340 - possible new name for block-statement To: python-dev@python.org Message-ID: <d4udl0$7j3$1@sea.gmane.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

FWIW, the first association when seeing

block something:

is with the verb "to block", and not with the noun, which is most displeasing.

Reinhold

Which is the reason I thought of "bracket" instead. Although it's also a noun and a verb, the verb doesn't imply "stop" like block does. However, because one of the main features of python is that it's easy to read, adding "with" to it makes it very clear as in "bracket_with". Ugly at first, but that's just a matter of familiarity. You never notice that your ugly friend is really that ugly anymore, right? bracket_with foo(arg1, arg2) as f: BLOCK seems very explicit to me. However, I do prefer no keyword at all and that would be my first choice, but if we have to choose a keyword, "block" has that "stop" connotation that will certainly confuse more than a few but I doubt people would go with "bracket_with." I certainly hope no-keyword is possible. -- Luis P Caamano Atlanta, GA USA