On 5/16/2018 1:24 PM, Adam Bartoš wrote:
Hello,
I have yet another idea regarding the the clashes between new keywords
and already used names. How about introducing two new keywords *wink*
that would serve as lexical keyword/nonkeyword declarations, similarly
to nonlocal and global declarations?
def f():
nonkeyword if
if = 2 # we use 'if' as an identifier
def g():
keyword if
if x > 0: pass # now 'if' again introduces a conditional statement
These are not at all similar to 'global' and 'nonlocal'. These would
make Python into a syntactically context-dependent language, rather than
a restricted (ll(1)) context-free language. I am pretty sure that the
current parser generator could not handle this.
'Global' and 'nonlocal' have NO effect on what is syntactically legal
and therefore no effect on syntax parsing. They only affect the meaning
(semantics) of other statements within the same function. The compiler
handles this by making two passes over a function body.
--
Terry Jan Reedy
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