A 'Python like' language

David MacQuigg dmq at gain.com
Fri Apr 9 18:09:32 EDT 2004


On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 16:19:09 +0100, Stephen Horne
<steve at ninereeds.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:

>On 28 Mar 2004 21:49:07 -0500, aahz at pythoncraft.com (Aahz) wrote:
>
>>In article <1f9c60dtvj2alu8lk522l29nerqrv0trv3 at 4ax.com>,
>>Stephen Horne  <steve at ninereeds.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>>I missed that. There's good precedent - it's the Pascal 'with' block,
>>>but better (the leading dot tells you that you're dealing with a
>>>'with' item rather than normal scoping rules). But - well - just
>>>recently, people keep telling me that indented blocks are purely about
>>>control flow. I keep disagreeing, but no-one has bothered agreeing
>>>with me so I was feeling rather lonely and miserable in this crusade
>>>:-(
>>
>>Huh?  Where were they telling you that?  (I don't read all of c.l.py by
>>a long shot, 'specially when I've just gotten back from PyCon.)  From my
>>POV, indented blocks are about program structure and namespaces.  Saying
>>that ``class`` refers purely to control flow definitely misses the point.
>
>My replies were...
>
>Message-ID: <euc160tp0l8hsts9l8rjvhgv3n6nhk0d81 at 4ax.com>
>
>Message-ID: <j69b601d6m5uhjp7jc43fbcsu3jdj62pdb at 4ax.com>
>
>I'm sure google can give you the full threads.

I guess I'm the culprit here.  I made the erroneous statement in a
post a while back.  Stephen corrected it.  I failed to acknowledge.
Got too busy with the Prothon mailing list, I guess.  Anyway, I'm
back.

-- Dave




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