John Nagle wrote:
> The Pascal/Ada/Modula family of languages all had type systems
> with restrictions on conversion. Unlike C, types in Pascal
> are not simply abbreviations of the type; they're unique types.
Ada is the only one of those that would let you
define things like "a new kind of
Paul Rubin wrote:
> Maybe we can concoct a cross between Python and Haskell, and call it
> "Paskell" after the philosopher Blaise ;-).
No, we name it after Pascall's confectionery:
http://www.homesick-kiwi.com/productpage.php?id=51
Lots of syntactic sugar. :-)
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Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Fri, 02 Mar 2007 09:30:20 +0100, Diez B. Roggisch wrote:
>
>
>>>A type system doesn't help. So what if they're both floats? The test
>>>is still bogus, your code will still wait too long to engage the
>>>retro-rockets, and the billion dollar space craft will still be t
Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Unless there is a type system that can automatically deal with the
> semantic difference between (say) screen coordinates and window
> coordinates, or between height and width, or safe and unsafe strings, the
> coder still has to deal with it themselves
On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 21:53:09 -0800, Paul Rubin wrote:
> Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> > That still sounds like an unreliable manual type system,
>> It's unreliable in the sense that the coder has to follow the naming
>> convention, and must have some bare minimum of sense. If you
Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Multi-Level-Specification allows you to
> > express physical quantities with their respective unit, and operations
> > on them to yield the combined unit at compile-time. There are some
> > rather complicated cases where simple unification won't so
On Fri, 02 Mar 2007 09:30:20 +0100, Diez B. Roggisch wrote:
>> A type system doesn't help. So what if they're both floats? The test
>> is still bogus, your code will still wait too long to engage the
>> retro-rockets, and the billion dollar space craft will still be travelling
>> at hundreds of mi
On Mar 2, 4:47 am, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 20:24:33 -0800, Paul Rubin wrote:
> > Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >> But if you used Apps Hungarian, and saw this line of code:
>
> >> if hmmCurrentHeight <= hinCriticalHeight:
>
> >> then you shou
>
> if hmmCurrentHeight <= hinCriticalHeight:
> then you should instantly recognise that there's a problem.
all civilized nations but one use metric systems. Of course there is a
problem if you spot inches somewhere.
Harald
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On 2 mar, 05:14, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 21:45:55 +0100, Bruno Desthuilliers wrote:
> > As a side note : hungarian notation is usually considered bad form here.
> > Look here for usual naming conventions:
> >http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/
>
> Which
> A type system doesn't help. So what if they're both floats? The test
> is still bogus, your code will still wait too long to engage the
> retro-rockets, and the billion dollar space craft will still be travelling
> at hundreds of miles an hour when it reaches the surface of Mars.
A type system _
Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > That still sounds like an unreliable manual type system,
> It's unreliable in the sense that the coder has to follow the naming
> convention, and must have some bare minimum of sense. If your coders are
> morons, no naming convention will save you. (
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> A type system doesn't help. So what if they're both floats? The test
> is still bogus, your code will still wait too long to engage the
> retro-rockets, and the billion dollar space craft will still be travelling
> at hundreds of miles an hour when it reaches the surface o
On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 20:24:33 -0800, Paul Rubin wrote:
> Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> But if you used Apps Hungarian, and saw this line of code:
>>
>> if hmmCurrentHeight <= hinCriticalHeight:
>>
>> then you should instantly recognise that there's a problem. Comparing
>> a heigh
Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> But if you used Apps Hungarian, and saw this line of code:
>
> if hmmCurrentHeight <= hinCriticalHeight:
>
> then you should instantly recognise that there's a problem. Comparing
> a height in millimetres to a height in inches is not a good thing to d
On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 21:45:55 +0100, Bruno Desthuilliers wrote:
> As a side note : hungarian notation is usually considered bad form here.
> Look here for usual naming conventions:
> http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/
Which Hungarian notation do you mean?
If you mean the Windows "Systems H
[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit :
> On Mar 1, 9:45 pm, Bruno Desthuilliers
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> I understand (I've been in wikipedia :-) ). Right now the Frame is the
> controller as well
> as the view.
Yeps. Note that this is a common "simplification" of the MVC - Microsoft
labelled i
On Mar 1, 9:45 pm, Bruno Desthuilliers
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> As a side note : hungarian notation is usually considered bad form here.
> Look here for usual naming
> conventions:http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/
Thanks for the tip. It's been too many years of VB6, and its difficult
[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit :
> Hi
>
> I am working on a python app, an outliner(a window with a TreeCtrl
> on the
> left to select a document, and a RichTextBox at the right to edit the
> current
> doc).
>
> I am familiarized with OOP concepts and terms but I lack practical
> experience
>
Hi
I am working on a python app, an outliner(a window with a TreeCtrl
on the
left to select a document, and a RichTextBox at the right to edit the
current
doc).
I am familiarized with OOP concepts and terms but I lack practical
experience
, so any comment/tip/pointer to docs will be welco
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