On Fri, 25 May 2018 09:28:01 +0200, Peter Otten wrote: > Yet another arcanum to learn for beginners with little return. If you > cannot refrain from tinkering with the language at least concentrate on > the features with broad application. Thank you.
Broader than multi-dimensional arrays? There are a bazillion uses for them. How many do you need before it is "broad application"? https://www.google.com/search?q=multidimensional+arrays https://www.google.com/search?q=what+are+some+uses+for+multidimensional +arrays "My programming language doesn't support arithmetic, because I only provide features with broad application. Arithmetic is only useful for manipulating numbers." Beginners already learn list * operator, and get *extremely emotional* when it doesn't copy lists like they expect: https://bugs.python.org/issue33636 This is a frequent, recurring pain point. Experienced programmers forget how confusing the behaviour of * is because they're so used to the execution model. They forget that writing a list comp is not even close to obvious, not only for beginners but even some experienced Python programmers. -- Steve -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
