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

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Sat Feb 8 12:03:07 EST 2003


In article <yu99fzqyaff0.fsf at europa.research.att.com>,
Andrew Koenig  <ark at research.att.com> wrote:
>
>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.

False.  You can use references to mask that issue.  TMTOWTDI.
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