On 4/25/2011 3:36 PM, haael wrote:
2. Because of that, old Python programs cease to work, even if they do not use any abandoned features. Their only sin is using certain words that further versions of Python have stolen away.
This very fact makes us *very* reluctant to add new keywords, which I think is a pretty good thing.
Solution: Let the parser treat all keywords that come after a dot (".") as regular identifiers.
I have no idea what the technical difficulties would be. However, one possible practical difficulty is that whether or not a name is dotted depends on the context. a.py: x = 3 # ok as = 4 # syntax error b.py import a a.x = 3 # ok a.as = 4 # ok with your proposal, but code within a could not access it. Same for code in the body of a class statement versus code without. -- Terry Jan Reedy