In article <[email protected]>, Steven D'Aprano <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Mar 2013 20:55:03 -0400, Roy Smith wrote: > > > In article <[email protected]>, > > Steven D'Aprano <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Also, speaking as somebody who remembers a time when ints where not > >> automatically promoted to longs (introduced in, Python 2.2, I think?) > >> let me say that having a single unified int type is *fantastic*, > > > > And incredibly useful when solving Project Euler problems :-) > > > > [I remember when strings didn't have methods] > > No string methods? You were lucky. When I were a lad, you couldn't even > use "" delimiters for strings. > > >>> "b string" > Parsing error: file <stdin>, line 1: > "b string" > ^ > Unhandled exception: run-time error: syntax error > > > Python 0.9.1. OK, you've got me beat. For Python. Am I going to have to go dig out my old IBM-1130 assembler decks? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
