On 5/20/2016 3:43 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
But the idea that you should avoid a Python feature while programming in Python because Javascript doesn't have it, or Ruby, or C, is surely the height of muddleheaded thinking. You're not programming Javascript, Ruby or C, you're programming in Python. The whole point of picking one language over another is to get access to the tools and features that language offers. Otherwise you're just wasting your time.
For many years I have resisted specializing in a programming language, as I can easily write any program in pseudo code and figure out the syntax for a particular language. Now it does help that most languages have derived from C and share a common feature set (i.e., string, integer, float, if/else, while, for, etc.). From my perspective, tacking on an else block to the end of a for or while loop looks like a bug or a not very well thought out feature. If I was translating a Python program with for/else or while/else statements into a different language, those statements will have to be rewritten anyway.
Thank you, Chris R. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
