Hi Rusi,
> Im entering this thread late (was off mail for a week), so pardon me
> if someone has already said this -- but have you looked at the
> difference between internal and external dsls:
> http://martinfowler.com/bliki/DomainSpecificLanguage.html (and links
> therein) ?
> Roughly speaking
Hey everyone,
this is my final mail. With all your help we have decided on names for our
function. It was a surprisingly difficult process but your inputs helped
tremendously. I have described our experiences (very good ones here, but
somewhat mixed ones with StackOverflow) in a blog entry:
ht
On 25Nov2012 04:06, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
| On Sat, 24 Nov 2012 14:32:19 -0800, Michael Herrmann wrote:
| > how about "write" instead of "type"? Just came to me in a flash of
| > inspiration. I know it's also pretty general but at least it's not a
| > built-in!
|
| "write" is an extremely commo
On Sat, 24 Nov 2012 14:32:19 -0800, Michael Herrmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> how about "write" instead of "type"? Just came to me in a flash of
> inspiration. I know it's also pretty general but at least it's not a
> built-in!
"write" is an extremely common operation with a signature very similar to
t
(This comes from my experience writing interactive fiction with the TADS
workbench; YMMV) As a rule, it's generally unwise to modify built-in variables
without thoroughly documenting your changes. Your modifications might not hold
up if the built-in definitions are revised (which would break y
On 24Nov2012 14:32, Michael Herrmann wrote:
| how about "write" instead of "type"? Just came to me in a flash of
inspiration. I know it's also pretty general but at least it's not a built-in!
+1
--
Cameron Simpson
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entir
Hi,
how about "write" instead of "type"? Just came to me in a flash of inspiration.
I know it's also pretty general but at least it's not a built-in!
Thanks!
Michael
On Friday, November 23, 2012 11:30:18 PM UTC+1, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On 23Nov2012 10:41, Michael Herrmann <> wrote:
>
> [...
On 23Nov2012 10:41, Michael Herrmann wrote:
[...]
| I know it's a common beginner's mistake to incautiously override
| built-in functions. However, we put in a lot of research and have come to
| the conclusion that, if Python had not already defined it, `type` would
| be the best name. We are now
On 11/23/2012 11:22 AM, Joel Goldstick wrote:
On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Michael Herrmann
mailto:michael.herrm...@getautoma.com>>
wrote:
Hi,
do you think it's bad style to override the built-in function
`type`? I'm co-developing a GUI automation library called Automa
(
In article ,
Michael Herrmann wrote:
> do you think it's bad style to override the built-in function `type`? I'm
> co-developing a GUI automation library called Automa
> (http://www.getautoma.com) and 'type' would be a very fitting name for a
> function that generates artificial key strokes.
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