Ken Tilton wrote:
> Andrew Reilly wrote:
>
> > That all looks like data.
>
> No, not reverse, the part you did not understand. I do not mean what the
> code was doing, I meant that it was code.
>
Code is data is code - even in Python:
skills_table = [
{
"title": "Absolute Value",
"annotations": ["Bleah bleah", "ho hum", "etc..."],
"hints": ["and so on", "etc..."],
"reverse" : (lambda x: whatever(x))
},
{
"title": "Square Root",
"annotations": ["Bleah bleah", "ho hum", "etc..."],
"hints": ["and so on", "etc..."],
"reverse" : (lambda x: someother(x))
},
# etc...
]
Of course those lambdas are crippled in Python (and not really
necessary in this bogus example)... But that's without trying to be
clever:
class AbsoluteValue:
title="Absolute Value"
annotations=["Some list", "goes here"]
@classmethod
def reverse(cls, *args):
# I didn't understand what your code was doing
pass
defskill(AbsoluteValue)
That would be a reasonable place for a "pie decorator" on a class, but
I guess that's not allowed. I doubt this second example would be
considered "Pythonic" in any case...
> > Couldn't you do that with a table
> > containing those fields, and key it off the defskill argument (or even the
> > title?) at startup?
>
> Not the code. In reverse.
>
Why not?
Python has plenty of other flaws that I can't happily work around, and
I do think Lisp is more flexible. However, I think your example is
readable enough with a data driven algorithm in most any popular
language. All of the data is visible to the reverse(...) method.
Maybe I missed something in your example, but I think you aren't trying
hard enough. :-)
The one I liked was: http://ll1.ai.mit.edu/shriram-talk.pdf
If I ever fill in your RtL survey, I'll be citing that one as a turning
point for me.
>
> Interpolation does not mean what you think it means.
I'm sure he meant "string interpolation", which is a common enough term
in scripting languages nowdays.
> It would be easier to compare and
> contrast with the Python equivalent if someone had posted such, but your
> troops have fallen back to Fort So What? and pulled up the drawbridge.
>
Oh God! Is it just me out here? And I'm not even a believer.
Cheers.
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