On Sep 22, 10:40 am, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 00:47:37 -0700, Kay Schluehr wrote: > > On 22 Sep., 08:56, Paul Rubin <http://[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Kay Schluehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > If you feel you can transform it into another unambigous grammar > >> > mixing statements and expressions it's up to you. > > >> We got rid of the print statement for python 3.0. Why not get rid > >> of the rest of them too? Just use expressions for everything, as > >> works fine for plenty of other languages. > > > One might create a new dynamic functional+OO programming language, > > where small statements like print, assert, raise etc. all become > > functions and statements like while, for, with etc. become anonymous > > closures. > > Before someone starts to create such a thing he should take a look at Io > which has just objects and methods. > > http://www.iolanguage.com/ > > Ciao, > Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
I checked out Io once and I disliked it. I expected Io's prototype OO being just a more flexible variant of class based OO but Io couples a prototype very closely to its offspring. When A produces B and A.f is modified after production of B also B.f is modified. A controls the state of B during the whole lifetime of B. I think parents shall not do this, not in real life and also not in programming language semantics. There was another, similar and also abandoned project a while ago heading for prototype OO called Prothon: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-announce-list/2004-March/002966.html When I remember correctly it was killed not because it was too ambitious but the author lost his vision and didn't want to grow Prothons ecosystem. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
