Re: Please VOTE! Changing keywords to functions

smoerk <[email protected]> Tue, 27 Jul 2004 16:56:05 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.prothon.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Martin Christensen wrote:

> Right... but wouldn't it be possible to unify import and from? As
> keywords, some syntactic oddness is to be expected, but since it reads
> pretty much as natural English, most of us don't notice. As functions,
> this suddenly becomes more apparent. How would you have them look?

i thought the same before i read your email. "from module import *|xyz" 
and "import module" was one of the first things i didn't like in python.

i would keep break, continue, return, from|import (with better syntax) 
and raise as keywords. it just looks better (IMHO).