On Mon, 19 May 2008 08:42:29 pm Lennart Regebro wrote:
> How was it again? "One and only one way"? :-)
Certainly not. What on earth gave you the idea that that ridiculous
statement is a Python philosophy? I know some Perl developers like to
contrast the supposed flexibility of Perl ("more than one way to do
it") with the imagined poverty of Python, but that really is a silly
claim to make about any Turing Complete language. If nothing else, any
programming language that lets you perform arithmetic would not be so
restrictive:
x = (1+2)*3 + 3*3
x = (3+2)*3 + 1*3
Which one should the compiler prohibit?
I strongly suggest that you look at the Zen of Python:
>>> import this
The Zen of Python, by Tim Peters
...
There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.
There should be ONE OBVIOUS way to do it, not "only one way".
--
Steven
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