On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 9:53 PM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Ned Deily <n...@acm.org> wrote: <snip> >> 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.
I think someone already beat you to it. They call their invention "Lisp". :-P Cheers, Chris -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
