> Consequently, Python's keywords and even the standard library can > exist with names being "just symbols" for many people.
I already told that on the py3k list: Until a week ago, I didn't know why "pass" was chosen for the "no action" statement - with all my English knowledge, I still could not understand why the opposite of "fail" should mean "no action". Still, I have been using "pass" for more than 10 years now, without ever questioning what it means in English, and I've successfully used it as a token. Except for the first draft of Das Python-Buch, where I, from memory, thought the statement should be "skip"; I remembered it had four letters, and meant "go to the next line". Now I understand it is meaning 12 in Merriam-Webster's dictionary, a) "to decline to bid, double, or redouble in a card game", or b) "to let something go by without accepting or taking advantage of it". Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
