On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 00:55:38 -0600, Joseph Garvin wrote: > I'm curious -- what is everyone's favorite trick from a non-python > language? And -- why isn't it in Python?
Long ago, I used to dabble in Forth. You could say, the entire Forth language was a trick :-) It was interesting to be able to define your own compiler commands, loop constructs and so forth. One of the things I liked in Pascal was the "with" keyword. You could write something like this: with colour do begin red := 0; blue := 255; green := 0; end; instead of: colour.red := 0; colour.blue := 255; colour.green := 0; Okay, so maybe it is more of a feature than a trick, but I miss it and it would be nice to have in Python. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
