Michael Hudson wrote: > The thing that bothers me about it is that the standard way you tell > python to do something is "call a function" -- to me, a special case > for exiting the interpreter seems out of proportion.
That would assume that the user knows that exit is a function: apparently, people expect it to be a statement (like print), or they are entirely unaware of the distinctions between statements, expressions, and functions. I often find that my students call them "commands" collectively (if they want to be more specific, they call the functions "methods"). Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com