On Apr 23, 2006, at 8:28 AM, Bill Birch wrote: > On 2006年4月23日 12:53 am, Fredrik Lundh wrote: >> Guido van Rossum wrote: >>> It's an interesting idea; it's been brought up before but nobody >>> AFAIK >>> has ever implemented it. I like the scoping requirement. >>>> can we add support for XML literals while we're at it? >>>> http://effbot.org/zone/idea-xml-literal.htm >>> Have a look at Comega > http://research.microsoft.com/Comega/ > which throws in SQL syntax just for good measure. Actually, I believe that if any project is especially interesting in re: Py3k and XML literals, it's LINQ: http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/future/linq/ As I understand things (since I'm really a Unix guy), the Comega stuff got folded into LINQ. Cheers, Kendall