Joseph Garvin wrote: 'm curious -- what is everyone's favorite trick from a non-python language? And -- why isn't it in Python?
I use constraints programming at work, Check out "System Verilog" or OZ/Mozart. It would be great if this style of programming could be added to Python. It is a declarative programming style (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declarative_programming), in which you can state what discrete values constrained values can take , say in a list. Give a set of functions that must be true for the variables then sit back and generate one or many sets of variable values that fit the constraints. The OZ homepage has an example for solving the eight queens problem: http://www.mozart-oz.org/documentation/fdt/node25.html#section.scripts.queens My use would be for testing. In the electronic design automation fields, there are several proprietary languages with this feature, here is an example written in Cadence's Specman 'e' language: http://www.asic-world.com/specman/specman_one_day2.html Cheers, Paddy. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
