For review: PEP 308 - If-then-else expression

Andrew Koenig ark at research.att.com
Sat Feb 8 11:46:43 EST 2003


>> Will people grow up about this? How hard is it to understand a bit of
>> computer code?

Aahz> If you're so dead set against Roy's argument, please explain to
Aahz> us why you use Python instead of Perl.

One reason is that Perl has several categories of variables, and you
have to state the category each time you utter the name of a variable.
This categorization makes it much more difficult to create useful
data structures than it would be otherwise.

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Andrew Koenig, ark at research.att.com, http://www.research.att.com/info/ark




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