Re: Python rules!

2016-11-10 Thread Skip Montanaro
Alister> i think whoever did that WAS a tool Perhaps, but maybe she is a Python programmer forced to write Java (not Jython). If so, props to her for making the best of a bad situation. :-) Skip -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python rules!

2016-11-10 Thread alister
On Wed, 09 Nov 2016 20:45:45 -0600, Skip Montanaro wrote: > On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 7:53 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: >> It's called Jython. :) > > Well, sure, but that didn't look enough like Python, so no chance that I > would mistake it for Jython. I suspect that whoever worked out that > arrange

Re: Python rules!

2016-11-09 Thread Rustom Mody
On Thursday, November 10, 2016 at 7:02:31 AM UTC+5:30, Skip Montanaro wrote: > > Too bad that the indentation is still not actually significant. One little > > undetectable mistake with the braces and the meaning of the code is > totally > > changed. > > Maybe an Emacs mode which can toggle betwee

Re: Python rules!

2016-11-09 Thread Skip Montanaro
On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 7:53 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: > It's called Jython. :) Well, sure, but that didn't look enough like Python, so no chance that I would mistake it for Jython. I suspect that whoever worked out that arrangement of semicolons and braces had some help from her tools. Skip --

Re: Python rules!

2016-11-09 Thread Chris Angelico
On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 12:32 PM, Skip Montanaro wrote: > > Maybe an Emacs mode which can toggle between "Java view/mode" (normal) and > "Python view/mode" (Rustom's Twitter example) would be useful. In the > latter, you'd edit the code as if it was Python and see it indebted ask > nice, while it

Re: Python rules!

2016-11-09 Thread Skip Montanaro
> Too bad that the indentation is still not actually significant. One little > undetectable mistake with the braces and the meaning of the code is totally > changed. Maybe an Emacs mode which can toggle between "Java view/mode" (normal) and "Python view/mode" (Rustom's Twitter example) would be us

Re: Python rules!

2016-11-09 Thread Ian Kelly
On Nov 9, 2016 5:48 PM, "Michael Torrie" wrote: On 11/09/2016 12:39 PM, jlada...@itu.edu wrote: > On Wednesday, November 9, 2016 at 4:32:15 AM UTC-8, Rustom Mody wrote: >> https://twitter.com/UdellGames/status/788690145822306304 > > It took me a minute to see it. That's insane! Yeah it is... ho

Re: Python rules!

2016-11-09 Thread Michael Torrie
On 11/09/2016 05:54 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 11:42 AM, Michael Torrie wrote: >> On 11/09/2016 12:39 PM, jlada...@itu.edu wrote: >>> On Wednesday, November 9, 2016 at 4:32:15 AM UTC-8, Rustom Mody wrote: https://twitter.com/UdellGames/status/788690145822306304 >>> >>

Re: Python rules!

2016-11-09 Thread Chris Angelico
On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 11:42 AM, Michael Torrie wrote: > On 11/09/2016 12:39 PM, jlada...@itu.edu wrote: >> On Wednesday, November 9, 2016 at 4:32:15 AM UTC-8, Rustom Mody wrote: >>> https://twitter.com/UdellGames/status/788690145822306304 >> >> It took me a minute to see it. That's insane! > >

Re: Python rules!

2016-11-09 Thread Michael Torrie
On 11/09/2016 12:39 PM, jlada...@itu.edu wrote: > On Wednesday, November 9, 2016 at 4:32:15 AM UTC-8, Rustom Mody wrote: >> https://twitter.com/UdellGames/status/788690145822306304 > > It took me a minute to see it. That's insane! Yeah it is... however Java actually looks pretty nice without all

Re: Python rules!

2016-11-09 Thread jladasky
On Wednesday, November 9, 2016 at 4:32:15 AM UTC-8, Rustom Mody wrote: > https://twitter.com/UdellGames/status/788690145822306304 It took me a minute to see it. That's insane! -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list