Re: why is print a function

Paul Prescod <[email protected]> Tue, 27 Jul 2004 12:04:21 -0700

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.lang.prothon.user
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Another reason: every keyword is an incursion into the user's namespace.

 >>> class foo:
...    def print(self):
   File "<stdin>", line 2
     def print(self):
             ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
 >>>


  Paul Prescod