Favorite non-python language trick?

[Tom Anderson]

On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, Joseph Garvin wrote:

> Claudio Grondi wrote:
>
> So far we've got lisp macros and a thousand response's to the lua trick. 
> Anyone else have any actual non-python language tricks they like?

Higher-order functions like map, filter and reduce. As of Python 3000, 
they're non-python tricks. Sigh - i guess it's time for me to get to know 
list comprehensions a bit better.

The one thing i really do miss is method overloading by parameter type. I 
used this all the time in java, and it really notice the lack of it 
sometimes in python. No, it's not really possible in a typeless language, 
and yes, there are implementations based on decorators, but frankly, 
they're awful.

Yeah, and i'm with "if False:" for commenting out chunks of code.

tom

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