Jeremy Hylton wrote: > To express this email in the positive form: > 1. Reserved words should be real words. > 2. The meaning of the word should be clear. > 3. "Put statements in positive form." (Strunk & White) > 4. The word should sound good.
agreed. a word should describe what a thing is, not what it isn't. not entirely sure about "global", though; things like "outer" and "extern(al)" might be better (especially if we could ignore C, which I don't think we can). cannot think of prior art here, but there has to be some. anyone ? </F> _______________________________________________ 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
