On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, Joseph Garvin wrote: > Claudio Grondi wrote: > > So far we've got lisp macros and a thousand response's to the lua trick. > Anyone else have any actual non-python language tricks they like?
Higher-order functions like map, filter and reduce. As of Python 3000, they're non-python tricks. Sigh - i guess it's time for me to get to know list comprehensions a bit better. The one thing i really do miss is method overloading by parameter type. I used this all the time in java, and it really notice the lack of it sometimes in python. No, it's not really possible in a typeless language, and yes, there are implementations based on decorators, but frankly, they're awful. Yeah, and i'm with "if False:" for commenting out chunks of code. tom -- ... but when you spin it it looks like a dancing foetus! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
