I sent George a private reply as discussing other languages gets rapidly off-topic.
I want to add a small addendum here about the technique he used and a Dave Neal and others are trying, a way to imagine things that is more compatible with how a language like Python works so it meets expectation. Your example was name= obj.name and you saw it as a convenience. But consider some form of linked list, perhaps a multidimensional one like a tree or generalized graph. If you are traversing the list there is a concept of following a sort of pointer to the "next" and once there following that to the "next" and so on, till you find what you want or reach a leaf node and back up and so on. So your routine may have multiple lines that look like: here = here.next As you traverse, "here" keeps moving and a sublist or subtree or whatever lies below you. It is not a convenience but a portable way to keep track of your current location. It keeps changing. And, in some cases, you retreat back and follow a nextleft or nextright pointer of sorts. In examples like that, the construct is not for convenience but simply because it makes no sense to approach an arbitrary data structure and have to say first.next.next.next.next ... Also noted is your use of a direct pointer had positive and also negative ramifications to consider. It is not a synonym just for convenience. -----Original Message----- From: Paul St George <em...@paulstgeorge.com> To: python-list@python.org Sent: Tue, Mar 22, 2022 4:52 pm Subject: Re: for convenience On 21/03/2022 17.47, Avi Gross wrote: > So, I ask Paul what other language than python he has used before, just out > of curiosity. The other language I have used (and often) is Processing. Before that, and a long time ago, Lingo. — Paul -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
