On Wed, 11 May 2011 15:05:45 +0100 Hans Georg Schaathun <h...@schaathun.net> wrote: > What could elif mean other than else: if?
If run by an elf? Who knows. You do, of course, if you have learned the basics of the language you are using. > if x could, for instance, mean "if x is defined". It could also mean "if x was created on a Tuesday." A short introduction to the language explains what it actually means. When did we come to the idea that people should be able to program in a language without actually learning it? The fact that Python comes so close to that possibility is nothing short of revolutionary. I suppose one day a reasoning android will be able to sit down at the terminal of a star ship computer and ask simple questions while making random hand movements across a screen but for now I am afraid that programmers still have to learn programming. -- D'Arcy J.M. Cain <da...@druid.net> | Democracy is three wolves http://www.druid.net/darcy/ | and a sheep voting on +1 416 425 1212 (DoD#0082) (eNTP) | what's for dinner. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
