>> I don't think Steven cares much, he loves this type of nitpicking and >> uber pedantic formulations, but only if he can apply it to other >> people's post :) > > Heh heh :) > > I actually do care, because (not having a Java/C++ background) I actually > do get a mental "double-take" every time I read about "class variables". > It takes a real effort of will to remind myself that they're probably not > talking about something like this: > > for theclass in (int, float, Decimal, Fraction): > do_something_with(theclass) >
Right. I figured you don't have much of a background in other OO languages but actually some background helps with python too. For one it helps communicating with other people on this list who do come from Java/C++/etc and also because python is heavily influenced by Java/C++/etc. Also, programming is not about a specific language but about programming :) The concepts are general, maybe it's spelled differently in python and java and C++ etc etc but the programmers in all these languages do talk about the same stuff. >> I found that his posts are generally useful and helpful, one just has to >> cut all the nitpicking, ... > > Technically you don't have to cut *all* the nitpicking, cutting 87.3% of > it is sufficient. Touche! :) Cheers, Daniel -- Psss, psss, put it down! - http://www.cafepress.com/putitdown -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
