[Python-ideas] Crazy idea: allow keywords as names in certain positions

[Rhodri James]

On 13/05/18 19:19, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> The idea I had (not for the first time:-)  is that in many syntactic
> positions we could just treat keywords as names, and that would free up
> these keywords.

I'm not familiar with the innards of the parser and it's waaaay too long 
since I sat through a parsing course, but can you turn that inside out? 
Are there times when the compiler knows it must be looking at a keyword, 
not a name?  I suspect not, given that arbitrary expressions can be 
statements, but someone else may have a more knowledgeable opinion.

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Rhodri James *-* Kynesim Ltd