On 5/2/14 12:50 PM, Rustom Mody wrote:
Just noticed a small thing in which python does a bit better than haskell:
$ ghci
let (fine, fine) = (1,2)
Prelude> (fine, fine)
(1,2)
Prelude>
In case its not apparent, the fi in the first fine is a ligature.
Python just barfs:
>>>fine = 1
File "<stdin>", line 1
fine = 1
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>>>
Surely by now we could at least be explicit about which version of
Python we are talking about?
$ python2.7
Python 2.7.2 (default, Oct 11 2012, 20:14:37)
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple Clang 4.0 (tags/Apple/clang-418.0.60)] on
darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> fine = 1
File "<stdin>", line 1
fine = 1
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>>> ^D
$ python3.4
Python 3.4.0b1 (default, Dec 16 2013, 21:05:22)
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 4.2 (clang-425.0.28)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> fine = 1
>>> fine
1
In Python 2 identifiers must be ASCII. Python 3 allows many Unicode
characters in identifiers (see PEP 3131 for details:
http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3131/)
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