[Python-ideas] English builtins for Python

[Steve Howell]

--- Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:

> Mathias Panzenböck wrote:
> 
> > is "a" the keyword or is it "is a"?
> 
> To be practical, it would have to be a
> pseudo-keyword
> that was only recognised after "is".
> 
> But it would be nicely perverse to make it a true
> keyword. :-)
> 

A similarly perverse thought is to make "um" a keyword
and allow it, um, almost anywhere it could possibly
make sense.  Which I think is almost everywhere.

If the Python interpreter failed on a line with "um"
in it, perhaps it would be extra aggressive in
providing traceback information. :)





       
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