On 03/18/2012 12:36 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 20:59:34 +0100, Kiuhnm wrote: In the second example, most English speakers would intuit that "print(i)" prints i, whatever i is.
There are two points where the code may be misunderstood, a beginner may think that "print i" prints to the inkjet printer (I remembered unplugging my printer when I wrote my first BASIC program for this reason); and the possible confusion of whether "print i" prints the letter "i" or the content of variable "i". (Fortunately, this confusion are easily resolved when I run the code and see the result on-screen instead of a job on the print spooler)
(ironically, although print is nowadays a programming jargon for outputting to screen, but in the old dark ages, people used to use the "print" statement to print to paper in their old terminal)
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