On 9 dic, 09:08, "Niels L Ellegaard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Now some of my fortran-using friends would like to use python to > analyze their data files. I wanted them to avoid making the same > mistakes as I did so I thought it would be good if they could get some > nanny-like warnings saying: "Watch out young man. If do this, then > python will behave differently from fortran and matlab". That could > teach them to do things the right way. Best bet is to learn to use python the right way. It's not so hard... > I am not an expert on all this, but I guessed that it would be possible > to make a set of constraints that could catch a fair deal of simple > errors such as the one above, but still allow for quite a bit of > programming. The problem is, it's an error only becasuse it's not the *intent* of the programmer - but it's legal Python code, and useful. It's hard for the computer to guess the intent of the programmer -yet!...- -- Gabriel Genellina -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
