On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 9:05 PM, BartC <b...@freeuk.com> wrote: > I think the real reason is not willing to admit that the language lacks > something that could actually be useful, and especially not to an upstart on > usenet who is not even an expert in that language.
I know what features I miss from the languages I use most frequently. Here, let me help you out a bit with some examples: Python - Support for live code reloads without restarting the process - A more free-form declarative syntax for laying out GUI code - Arbitrary-precision non-integers - Convenient syntax for a few array/list manipulations - Truly concurrent threads - Extreme short-hand for executing external commands, the way REXX does Pike - Keyword arguments - "obj in collection" syntax for membership testing - Better documentation in places - Out-of-the-box GTK support on OSX - As with Python, external command execution shorthand Notice that I did not put "Bracey syntax" under Python, nor "Braceless syntax" under Pike, despite them not having those options. Notice also that I didn't put "simpler loop syntax" in either; Python's loops you know about, and Pike gives you the C-style "for (int i=0; i<10; ++i)" form and "foreach (collection, item)" like Python's "for item in collection". The only thing I might yearn for - *MIGHT* - would be for Python to gain an "index-and-value" iteration form like Pike's "foreach (collection; index; value)", which for dictionaries would be like iterating over .items(), and for lists would be like using enumerate(). But I've never actually found myself yearning for it while I'm writing Python code - it's a small convenience when I'm working in Pike, is all. Does Python "lack" the simple repeat statement? Well, in the sense that it doesn't have it, sure. But Python also doesn't have a single function to read a line from a gzipped file and strip HTML tags from it before returning it [1]. Not everything that doesn't exist is needed. ChrisA [1] http://php.net/manual/en/function.gzgetss.php -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
