[Python-3000] Reserve "pragma" keyword in Python 3.0?

Giovanni Bajo rasky at develer.com
Sat Mar 22 01:39:47 CET 2008


On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 00:51:48 +0100, Martin v. Löwis wrote:

>> I think Python needs a dedicated "pragma" syntax; we already have two
>> pragma syntaxes ("from __future__ import" and "# coding"), and I think
>> a syntax designed for expressing pragmas would be much clearer than
>> using existing language features in weird ways to express pragmas.  But
>> that's a debate for another day.
> 
> See the (rejected) PEP 244.

This PEP wasn't updated explaining the reasons of the rejection, so we 
can't tell if those reasons apply to Py3k as well.
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Giovanni Bajo
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