Xah Lee wrote:
does anyone know why the Python mode in emacs uses spaces for first
level indentation but one tab for second level?
i'm using emacs 21.3.50.1.
You probably have tab-width set to 8 spaces, but indentation in python
set to 4 spaces.
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Xah Lee wrote:
i've started to read python tutorial recently.
http://python.org/doc/2.3.4/tut/tut.html
What does this have to do with Perl, Lisp, Scheme, or C?
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Alex Martelli wrote:
> Joe Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>...
>> If you language allows unnamed integers, unnamed strings, unnamed
>> characters, unnamed arrays or aggregates, unnamed floats, unnamed
>> expressions, unnamed statements, unnamed argument lists, etc. why
>> *require* a name
Alex Martelli wrote:
> Stefan Nobis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) writes:
>>
>>> if anonymous functions are available, they're used in even more
>>> cases where naming would help
>> Yes, you're right. But don't stop here. What about expressions? Many
>> people w
Alex Martelli wrote:
> M Jared Finder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>...
>> Your reasoning, taken to the extreme, implies that an assembly language,
>> by virtue of having the fewest constructs, is the best designed language
>
> Except that the major premis
Chris Uppal wrote:
> E.g. can you add three-way comparisons (less-than, same-as, greater-than to,
> say, Python with corresponding three-way conditional control structures to
> supplement "if" etc ? Are they on a semantic and syntactic par with the
> existing ones ? In Smalltalk that is trivial
SamFeltus wrote:
> Religious Fanaticism is a very strong in the Computer community. But,
> is it really a surprise that when a bunch of hairless apes created a
> new mental world, they created it with a complicated Quilt of religions
> and nationalities, and many became fanatical?
>
> I am confid
