[Python-Dev] Simple syntax proposal: "not is"

[Steven Bethard]

On Jan 25, 2008 9:13 AM, Jameson Chema Quinn <jquinn at cs.oberlin.edu> wrote:
> I'm writing a source code editor that translates identifiers and keywords
> on-screen into a different natural language. This tool will do no
> transformations except at the reversible word level. There is one simple,
> avoidable case where this results in nonsense in many languages: "is not". I
> propose allowing "not is" as an acceptable alternative to "is not".

-1.  There should be one obvious way to do it.  And honestly, if
you're dealing with natural language, and your system is not able to
change word order words between languages, you're in a lot of trouble
already.

STeVe
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