On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 06:43, Peter Astrand wrote: > Even though you can use them as variables (and shadow the builtins), you > will still get warnings from "pychecker". The code will also be harder to > read: When you see "all" in the middle of some code, you don't know if > it's referring to the builtin or a variable.
> Personally, I think Python has too many builtins already. I agree. Personally, I'd rather see 'all' called 'every' (I'm less sure about 'any' being called 'some'), and I'd rather see these put in some module other than builtin. -Barry
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