Not so much. On Feb 17, 10:12 am, Reinier Zwitserloot <[email protected]> wrote: > To summarize Joel Neely's argument: > > "I think java should have tuple packing and unpacking exactly as > python has it". >
I'd have summarized it more as "multiple assignment doesn't require a full implementation of Tuples and structural typing, and offers additional notational conveniences." I didn't write in terms of tuples and Python (or Perl, Ruby, etc.) deliberately, to avoid the excess baggage. Although use of anonymous tuples is one way to implement what I described (and a nice one at that), it isn't the only way. (Just as "hidden go to statements" aren't the only way to think about, or implement, iterative program structures.) Dijkstra discussed "concurrent assignment" on p. 28 of /A Discipline of Programming/ (copyright 1976), and the concept was already well known by then. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
