Paddy wrote: > Robert Uhl wrote: > > > Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > Speaking as somebody who programmed in FORTH for a while, that doesn't > > > impress me much. Prefix/postfix notation is, generally speaking, more > > > of a pain in the rear end than it is worth, even if it saves you a > > > tiny bit of thought when pasting code. > > > > Of course, you use prefix notation all the time in Python: > > > > for x in range(0,len(y)): > > dosomething(x) > > In Python, most containers are directly iterable so we are much more > likely to arrange our program to use: > for a in y: > dosomethingwith(a) > > -Paddy.
Or the more succinct Python (FP) construct: map(dosomething, y) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
