On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Ned Deily <n...@acm.org> wrote: > Chris Angelico: >> Dave Angel: >> >>>> bool = int >> Any language that allows you to do this is either awesome or >> terrifying. Come to think of it, there's not a lot of difference. > > Even better: > $ python2.7 -c 'False = True; print False' > True
http://bofh.ch/bofh/bofh13.html > Alas: > $ python3 -c 'False = True; print(False)' > File "<string>", line 1 > SyntaxError: assignment to keyword Someone in Python3 dev thinks it's a bad idea to shoot yourself in the foot. Remind me some day to finish work on my "ultimate programming language", which starts out with a clean slate and lets the programmer define his own operators and everything. Pro: The expression evaluator can be taught to interpret Dungeons & Dragons notation - 2d6 means "random(1,6)+random(1,6)". Con: The same expression might mean something completely different in another program. Pro: You can do anything. Con: You can do anything. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
