Re: List Comprehensions (from Python)

[Dan Schmidt]

"raptor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

| hi,
| I haven't used Python... but last days I read some stuff, wanted to compare
| both languages for myself and found something interesting.
| They are proposing extentinon to Pyhon 2

It's already in Python 2.0.

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Re: Ordinals, Hashes, and Arrays, oh my

[Dan Schmidt]

David Green wrote:
That's true.  But it's got me thinking about the connection between 
arrays and "associative" arrays.  In fact, the user doesn't need to know 
that a "hash" is implemented with a hash table, and an "array" isn't; 
and nothing stops you from using numbers as hash keys.
I believe Lua treats arrays just like hashes indexed by integers.  I 
don't know if they optimize anything under the hood.

Re: Exegesis2 and the "is" keyword

[Dan Schmidt]

Peter Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

| I've been reading "is" as a declarative imperative, something which
| declares a property of something you are creating.  Here it's being
| used to modify the properties of something that already exists, and
| it reads funny to me.  Many properties that one can set at
| declaration time are compile time only, yet this usage might suggest
| to many people that they can be changed at run time.  If you see
| what I mean.

Clearly we need 'becomes' and 'gets' for mutable properties, in
addition to 'is' and 'has' for constant ones.

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