Guido van Rossum wrote: > On Jan 25, 2008 8:13 AM, Jameson Chema Quinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm writing a source code editor that translates identifiers and keywords >> on-screen into a different natural language. This tool will do no >> transformations except at the reversible word level. There is one simple, >> avoidable case where this results in nonsense in many languages: "is not". I >> propose allowing "not is" as an acceptable alternative to "is not". >> >> Obviously English syntax has a deep influence on python syntax, and I would >> never propose deeper syntactical changes for natural-language-compatibility. >> This is a trivial change, one that is still easily parseable by an >> English-native mind (and IMO actually makes more sense logically, since it >> does not invite confusion with the nonsensical "is (not ...)"). The >> use-cases where you have to grep for "is not" are few, and the "(is >> not)|(not is)" pattern that would replace it is still pretty simple. > > Sorry, but this use case just doesn't sound strong enough to change a > programming language's grammar. > > While I promise you I will remain -1 on the proposal simply because it > doesn't serve any programmer's goals, you've piqued my curiosity -- > can you give an example of what your tool does? From your description > I actually have no clue. > It not does sound like a very good idea to me.
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