2007/2/12, Benji York <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Collin Winter wrote:
> > There's a connection, but I'd say it's the wrong one. In C, "x->y"
> > dereferences x, while in Python, "x->y" would dereference y. That's
> > just begging for trouble.
>
> Then the syntax should obviously be "x<-y".
Someone wi
2006/7/5, Just van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Guido van Rossum wrote:
>
> > On 7/5/06, Phillip J. Eby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Did you also consider and reject:
> > >
> > > * Alternate binding operators (e.g. ":=", ".=", etc.)
> >
> > Brr.
>
> That's too bad :(
>
> I still find a rebindi
2006/2/6, Raymond Hettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> The original Numeric definition is likely to be better for people who know
> what they're doing; however, I still question whether it is an appropriate
> remedy for the beginner issue
> of why 1.1 + 1.1 + 1.1 doesn't equal 3.3.
Beginners won't kn
2005/11/15, Nick Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Specifically, the body of the entire function is written inside a switch
> statement, with 'break' then used as the equivalent of "raise Exception". For
> example:
>
>PyObject* switchAsTry()
>{
> switch(0) {
>default:
> /
On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 12:57:07 PST, Bill Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Apparently the Python program, which applies the same re substitutions
> in the same order as the Perl program, takes 3 times as long to run.
> He thinks it's because of mutable strings in Perl -- that is, he
> thinks the s
