* 2011-05-24T06:05:35-04:00 * D'Arcy J. M. Cain wrote: > On Tue, 24 May 2011 09:00:14 +0300 > "Octavian Rasnita" <orasn...@gmail.com> wrote: >> %d = @l; >> >> Please tell me if Python has a syntax which is more clear than this >> for doing this thing. > > How is that clear? "Shorter" != "clearer." A Python programmer looking > at that sees line noise.
I'm a Lisp programmer who sees (some) Python code as line noise. >> I am just defending a language which has a clearer syntax for doing >> some things, and a shorter code for other > > Are Perl programmers aware of some imminent worldwide shortage of > electrons that Python programmers are not? Why is there this obsession > with shortness? I don't know but from the point of view of a Lisp programmer Python has the same obsession. Not trolling, I just wanted to point out that these are just point of views. I don't actually care that much about these things. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list