Please statement (Re: Is this a true statement?)

[Roman Suzi]

On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Greg Ewing wrote:

>"Steven D. Majewski" wrote:
>>
>> ( And I DO wish more languages had adopted Intercal's "Please"
>>   statement -- it would make programs so much nicer to read! )
>
>I can even think of a use for it in Python. Some
>people feel that it would be useful to have some
>sort of "directive" or "pragma" statement for
>specifying compile-time options.
>
>Calling it "please" would be a nice way of
>conveying that the implementation is free to
>honour it or not, as is convenient.
>
>e.g.
>
>  please:
>    call_del_methods_when_collecting_cycles
>    optimise_integer_variables
>    declare_generators_using_keyword("generator") # :-)
>

please,
  leave pragmas to other Python vendors



Sincerely yours, Roman Suzi
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