Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Talin wrote: > >> I expect to see a series of special-case syntactical work-arounds that >> compensate for the lack of such a feature. > > yeah, because the "special-case syntactical work-arounds" are care- > fully designed to be *usable* for a well-defined group of *practical* > problems. it's about HCI, not CS. > > please get over this "all I have is a hammer that my CS teacher told > me to use" mode of thinking; we're designing for humans, not wannabe > language designers who believe in "the one true mechanism". there are > plenty of other reli^h^h^h^hlanguages for that kind of thinking.
I've never taken a CS course BTW - the only formal training I've had was in the Air Force, in 1976, where I learned assembly language, Fortran, and COBOL :) So be careful what assumptions you make here :) -- Talin _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com