Ka-Ping Yee wrote:
The programmer who writes the function used to introduce a block
can hardly be relied upon to explain the language semantics. We
don't expect the docstring of every class to repeat an explanation
of Python classes, for example. The language reference manual is
for that; it's a
[Nick Coghlan]
Would 'suite' work as the keyword?
Calling these things 'suite' statements would match the Python grammar,
Actually that's an argument *against* -- too confusing to have two
things we call suite.
give an
obvious visual indicator through the use of a keyword, reduce any
On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
At 08:21 PM 4/29/05 -0500, Ka-Ping Yee wrote:
All the statements in Python are associated with keywords, except
for assignment, which is simple and extremely common. I don't
think the block statement is simple enough or common enough for
that; its
