On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 7:11 AM Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> wrote:
> > >> Where possible, should we retroactively make existing > >> keywords contextual? > > > > The benefit of contextual keywords is being able to choose popular > method/function/variable names as new keywords > > without a disruptive deprecation and migration process. That benefit > doesn't apply to existing keywords. > > No, but it would have the benefit of allowing existing keywords to be > reused where it makes sense; a recent example I > came across is the Tcl/Tk interface -- Tk has a method named `raise`, but > it has to be renamed to tkraise because of the > keyword clash (it's also given a `lift` alias). > This is a reasonable idea, with definite pros and cons. I recommend starting a separate thread about that. -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) *Pronouns: he/him **(why is my pronoun here?)* <http://feministing.com/2015/02/03/how-using-they-as-a-singular-pronoun-can-change-the-world/>
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