How much is set in stone?

[Nicholas FitzRoy-Dale]

On  5 Nov, Jive Dadson wrote:
> Chris Barker wrote:

>> If you start changing that too, you
>> really won't have Python anymore!!
> 
> The changes I've proposed do not conflict in any way with the
> "Python-ness" of the language.  If you don't put "option explicit" at
> the top of your module, it will behave exactly the same as it did
> before.

Good point! Based on that, here is my Python "Enhancement" proposal:

Let's make it so that placing "option disturbing" at the start of a
module turns on "C Mode". In this mode, Python's behaviour would be
modified in the following ways:

	* Use of curly braces to delineate syntax blocks, rather than
	  indentation;
	* The C ternary operator would be fully supported, as would
	  fall-through "switch" statements (as long as the type being
	  switch()ed is some kind of number, of course);
	* Class support would be removed, but everyone knows all you
	  need is support for struct{} anyway. Structs could only
	  contain the types "IntType", "FloatType" and "StringType",
	  but when you get down to it it's all numbers anyway;
	* We'd finally get our beloved "goto" statement.

Fortunately, none of this will affect the "Python-ness" of the language
- without "option disturbing", it will behave exactly as before!

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