Thank you Josiah Carlson for your answers. If certain parts of my messages upset you, then you can surely skip those parts. (Now I am reading a big good manual: "Learning Python, II ed.", so in the future I hope to write better things about this language.)
>That is simple and clean?< Well, it's a clean way to express such complexity. And now I think decorators aren't so fit for such purpose (they produce less clear pre-post). The pre-posts in the docs seem better to me. >Then again, I document and test, and haven't used pre/post conditions in 5+ years.< Yep, documentation and doctests (etc) are useful. >>but I've seen that lots of people have already discussed such topic).<< >Discussion of the @ decorator syntax is a moot point.< I know, I noticed that... Still, only few things are fixed in stone :-] >Think of it like an 'example' in the documentation, where the code is provided for doing both permutations and combinations.< Ah, now I see. In my original post of this thread I have given an URL of some routines written in C because they are about 10 times faster than the routines that I can write in Python. >>If you are interested I can give the Python Quickselect code, etc.<< >No thank you, I have my own.< I see. I haven't tried to force you to take my routines, but to offer any interested person a way to cheek my words. >Ick. In Python, the language is generally read left to right, in a similar fashion to english. The prefix notation of 0<octal> and 0x<hex>, in my opinion, reads better than your postfix-with-punctuation notation.< As you say, it's your opinion, and I respect it, but in mathematics I think you usually put the base at the end of the number, as a small subscripted number (but I understand your following explanations). >I'll also mention that two of your examples; afa35a_16 and Fi3pK_64, are valid python variable names< Uh, I am sorry... As I feared, I have written a silly thing :-) >I much prefer just using decimal and offering the proper base notation afterwards in a comment...< I agree. I'll avoid to give hugs, Bearophile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
