[Python-ideas] Make all keywords legal as an identifier

[Rob Cliffe]

On 26/04/2011 01:14, Chris Rebert wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Carl M. Johnson
> <cmjohnson.mailinglist at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Ethan Furman<ethan at stoneleaf.us>  wrote:
>>> Many?  Aren't we still at less than 50 words total?  Pretty infinitesimal
>>> when compared with the 100,000+ words in the English language.
>> Here are all of them for Python 3:
>>
>>
>> and                 elif                import              raise
>> as                  else                in                  return
>> assert              except              is                  try
>> break               finally             lambda              while
>> class               for                 nonlocal            with
>> continue            from                not                 yield
>> def                 global              or
>> del                 if                  pass
>>
>> 30 total.
> You're missing True, False, and None.
>
> Ellipsis remains an interesting exception.
>
> Cheers,
> Chris
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If you don't like adding an underscore, why not capitalise the first 
Letter of your Identifiers, e.g. 'With'?  This would be fine for 
importing from Pascal (where Identifiers are Case-insensitive) and would 
guarantee avoiding clashing with Keywords, present *and* future (even if 
it gave a slightly German Flavour to the Code).
Rob Cliffe