On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 8:10 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > Do you get worried by books if the last page doesn't include the phrase "The > End"? These days, many movies include an extra clip following the credits. > When the clip finishes, and the screen goes dark, how long do you sit > waiting before you accept that the movie is over? > > *wink* >
You wait for the house lights to come up. That's your ending signal. As is often said in live theatre: "House lights, warmers, thank you gentlemen, going off cans!" It still has an end marker. On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 9:07 AM, Seebs <usenet-nos...@seebs.net> wrote: > I actually really *like* that Ruby and Lua let pretty much everything just > be an expression. I was utterly dumbfounded when I found out that "print" > in Python is a kind of statement, not a function or something comparable. > (This seems to have changed recentlyish.) Yes. Not everything's an expression; a block of code is not an expression that returns a code object, and variable assignment is a statement. Some day, I'd like to play around with a language where everything's an expression and yet it doesn't look like LISP - just for the fun of it. It probably won't be any more useful for real world coding, but it'd be fun to tinker with. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
