--- Bruno Desthuilliers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steve Howell a écrit : > (snip) > > > > Jordan and others, thanks for all your posts; I am > > learning a lot about both languages. > > > > This is what I've gathered so far. > > > > Python philosophy: > > passing around references to methods should be > > natural (i.e. my_binary_op = math.add) > > calling methods should be explicit (use parens) > > the use of setters/getters varies among Python > > programmers; properties, decorators, special > methods, > > etc. can be used judiciously to affect the > interface > > You can forget decorators here - the examples in > this thread were mostly > tricky ways to define properties. To be more > general, the Python way to > implement transparent computed attributes is to hook > into the lookup > mechanism, usually thru the descriptor protocol (the > property class > being one possible implementation), but also using > the __getattr__ / > __getattribute / __setattr__ hooks. >
Ok, that makes sense. > > Ruby philosophy: > > a method itself should be callable without > parens > > you can get a reference to a chunk of code, but > > then you need a little extra syntax, beyond just a > > variable name and parens, to eventually call it > > (yield, &, call, etc.) > > when referring to methods, you can use :symbols > to > > name the method you're interested in without > actually > > calling it > > > > My personal experience: > > > (snip) > > > > I was surprised in Ruby by how seldom I really > pass > > references to methods around, > > This probably has to do with this nice feature named > 'blocks' !-) > Partly. It's also due to the fact that my experience so far in Ruby has mostly been writing code at the top layer of a fairly vanilla Rails MVC app, whereas in Python I've done a much wider variety of tasks. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list