Re: Re: Please VOTE! Changing keywords to functions

 --- Mark Hahn <[email protected]> wrote: 
> The keywords "assert", "import", and "from" have
> been eliminated on
> technical grounds.  That only leaves:
> 
> exec
> raise
> 
> break
> continue
> return
> 

What about yield? Is voting on that closed? I'd vote
to keep yield and return be the same 'type' of thing.
Either both functions or both keywords. Making them
different seems confusing. To me at least.

I guess one of the things to think about when deciding
is:

Do you want users to be able to change the meaning of
those things? Maybe you do, maybe you don't. eg.

def raise(x):
  print x

Hmmm...seems 'dangerous' to me.

I think that you want to keep things such that the
programmer of a prothon program (either original or
newly recruited) can quickly make sense of things
instead of having to check if things like raise and
yield in that program actually means what he thinks it
does. Keywords give you that sense of certainty.




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