On 10 Oct, 10:44, Lie Ryan wrote:
> On 10/02/10 20:04, NickKeighleywrote:
> >>> > > In a statically typed language, the of-the-wrong-type is something
> >>> > > which
> >>> > > can, by definition, be caught at compile time.
>
> >> > Any time something is true "by definition" that is an indicati
On 1 Oct, 19:33, RG wrote:
> In article ,
> Seebs wrote:
> > On 2010-10-01, RG wrote:
> > >> Those goal posts are sorta red shifted at this point.
[...]
> > > Red shifted?
>
> > Moving away fast enough that their color has visibly changed.
doppler shift for instance or one of them cosmologi
On 1 Oct, 11:02, p...@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) wrote:
> Seebs writes:
> > On 2010-09-30, Ian Collins wrote:
> >> Which is why agile practices such as TDD have an edge. If it compiles
> >> *and* passes all its tests, it must be right.
>
> > So far as I know, that actually just
On 27 Sep, 18:46, namekuseijin wrote:
> Fact is: almost all user data from the external words comes into
> programs as strings. No typesystem or compiler handles this fact all
> that graceful...
snobol?
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On 30 Sep, 15:24, TheFlyingDutchman wrote:
> > > If I had to choose between "blow up" or "invalid answer" I would pick
> > > "invalid answer".
>
> > there are some application domains where neither option would be
> > viewed as a satisfactory error handling strategy. Fly-by-wire, petro-
> > chemic
On 30 Sep, 11:14, TheFlyingDutchman wrote:
> > > "in C I can have a function maximum(int a, int b) that will always
> > > work. Never blow up, and never give an invalid answer. "
>
> > > Dynamic typed languages like Python fail in this case on "Never blows
> > > up".
>
> > How do you define "Never
On 27 Sep, 20:29, p...@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon)
wrote:
> namekuseijin writes:
> > Fact is: almost all user data from the external words comes into
> > programs as strings. No typesystem or compiler handles this fact all
> > that graceful...
>
> I would even go further.
>
> Ty
On 19 Aug, 16:25, c...@tiac.net (Richard Harter) wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 01:39:09 -0700 (PDT), Nick Keighley
> wrote:
> >On 17 Aug, 18:34, Standish P wrote:
> >> How are these heaps being implemented ? Is there some illustrative
> >> code or a book showing how
On 17 Aug, 21:37, Elizabeth D Rather wrote:
> On 8/17/10 10:19 AM, Standish P wrote
> > On Aug 17, 12:32 pm, John Passaniti wrote:
> >>> It is true that the other languages such as F/PS also have borrowed
> >>> lists from lisp in the name of nested-dictionaries and mathematica
> >>> calls them n
On 17 Aug, 18:34, Standish P wrote:
> On Aug 16, 11:09 am, Elizabeth D Rather wrote:
> > On 8/15/10 10:33 PM, Standish P wrote:
>
> > >>> If Forth is a general processing language based on stack, is it
> > >>> possible to convert any and all algorithms to stack based ones and
> > >>> thus avoid m
On 16 Aug, 09:33, Standish P wrote:
> On Aug 16, 12:47 am, Nick Keighley
> > On 16 Aug, 08:20, Standish P wrote:
this is heavily x-posted I'm answering from comp.lang.c
I also note that another poster has suggested you are a troll/loon
you seem to be using some computer scie
this is heavily x-posted I'm answering from comp.lang.c
On 16 Aug, 08:20, Standish P wrote:
> [Q] How far can stack [LIFO] solve do automatic garbage collection and
> prevent memory leak ?
I'm having trouble understanding your question (I read your whole post
before replying). I strongly suspec
On 18 July, 09:38, Emmy Noether wrote:
> On Jul 18, 1:09 am, Nick <3-nos...@temporary-address.org.uk> wrote:
> > Emmy Noether writes:
> > > In this video, Stall man makes 4 promises to public but stalls on 2nd
> > > of them.
>
> > I have no idea of the rights or wrongs of this case. But I've
On 16 July, 09:24, Mark Tarver wrote:
> On 15 July, 23:21, bolega wrote:
>
> >http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/stallman-kth.html
>
> > RMS lecture at KTH (Sweden), 30 October 1986
did you really have to post all of this...
> > read more »...
...oh sorry only about a third of it...
> Perhaps as
On 8 July, 08:08, Nick Keighley
wrote:
> On 7 July, 17:38, Rivka Miller wrote:
> > Anyone know what the first initial of L. Peter Deutsch stand for ?
>
> Laurence according to wikipedia (search time 2s)
oops! He was born Laurence but changed it legally to "L." i
On 7 July, 17:38, Rivka Miller wrote:
> Although C comes with a regex library,
C does not come with a regexp library
> Anyone know what the first initial of L. Peter Deutsch stand for ?
Laurence according to wikipedia (search time 2s)
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On 9 June, 13:50, Bruno Desthuilliers wrote:
> Nick Keighley a écrit :
>
>
>
>
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> > On 9 June, 10:35, Bruno Desthuilliers > 42.desthuilli...@websiteburo.invalid> wrote:
> >> Nick Keighley a crit :
>
> >>> I'm trapping mouse cli
On 9 June, 10:35, Bruno Desthuilliers wrote:
> Nick Keighley a crit :
> > I'm trapping mouse clicks using
>
> > canvas.bind("", mouse_clik_event)
>
> > def mouse_clik_event (event) :
> > stuff
>
> > What mouse_clik_event does is modif
to pass data to the callback function? Some GUIs give
you a user-data field in the event, does Tkinter?
Or am I reduced to using global data? A Singleton is just
Global Data by other means.
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This led to packs of feral Global Variables roaming the
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On 3 Oct, 00:33, Xah Lee wrote:
> Haskell has a new logo. A fantastic one. Beautiful. For creator,
> context, detail, see bottom of:
>
> • A Lambda Logo Tour
> http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/lambda_logo.html
I'm amazed he thinks anyone would donate 3 USD
to that site
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