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On Apr 10, 2006, at 12:24 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote: > On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 12:16 -0400, Kendall Clark wrote: > >> I don't know if the Ruby syntax for symbols, :foo, will work in >> Python (though I think visually it's a good thing), but it would be >> really nice to have symbols with *some* syntax in Python 3000. > > To be fair, I think Ruby stole the idea and syntax from Lisp. It's an > interesting idea, but I'd like to understand exactly what you mean > by "a > Python symbol". Can you give more detail about your idea, perhaps > as a > pseudo-PEP? I was afraid someone was going to ask that... :> FWIW, I didn't mean to suggest Ruby originated anything about symbols, just that as a close language cousin, the Ruby syntax for symbols made good sense to me for Py3K. But there are also some interesting diffs between Common Lisp, Scheme, and Ruby re: symbols. I'll try to send something pseudo-PEPish about this later today, after I've done a bit more work to get all the facts straight. Cheers, Kendall -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin) iD8DBQFEOo0VMWrdIbaAVEURAmD6AKCQXQIerODvuXbFFJ6YJCKgPZW9SACfe978 jfhBiRcXvvjrkVujNgPs0xU= =QUh8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
