Michael Hobbs wrote: > Ron Adam wrote: >> LOL, of course it would. I would expect that too after a suitable amount >> of >> 'brain washing', oops, I mean training and conditioning. ;-) >> > Trust me, my brain is quite filthy and doesn't wash easily. I do > appreciate aesthetics, which is why still stay with Python, even after > programming in Ruby for several months. I've used Java/C/C++ for years, > yet I make no complaint about the lack of static typing in Python. Even > so, I'd like to think that I know a good thing when I see it.
I find if I approach things on a learning basis and always presume there are things I still don't know. I then tend to get much more help and support than if I approach things on a 'I'm right/your wrong' basis. Also, if I do turn out to have a point a view that is not exactly right, it is then much easier for me to take a new position or even the reverse position and move on. > Not to repeat myself from an earlier post, but any pretense that > Python's primary objective is readability went out the window with the > invention of such constructs as "__del__", "__repr__", and > "super(MyClass, self).__init__()". There are obviously other goals to > the language's development that inspired these constructs and override > the priority of readability. No one said (that I know of) that readability is *the primary objective*. But it is a very important guideline. >> Here's an alternative test. Write a program to remove all the end of line >> colons from pythons library and then write another separate program to put >> them >> back in. Will it miss any? will it pass the python test suite? >> > I just may take you up on that. ;-) Not for a few days, though. Not > enough time right now. > > - Mike I believe you will find that exercise much more difficult than it seems, but I may be wrong. Good luck if you try it, and let me know how it goes. Ron -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
