Py3K idea: why not drop the colon?
Ron Adam
rrr at ronadam.com
Mon Nov 13 14:22:13 EST 2006
Michael Hobbs wrote:
> Ron Adam wrote:
>> LOL, of course it would. I would expect that too after a suitable amount of
>> 'brain washing', oops, I mean training and conditioning. ;-)
>>
> Trust me, my brain is quite filthy and doesn't wash easily. I do
> appreciate aesthetics, which is why still stay with Python, even after
> programming in Ruby for several months. I've used Java/C/C++ for years,
> yet I make no complaint about the lack of static typing in Python. Even
> so, I'd like to think that I know a good thing when I see it.
I find if I approach things on a learning basis and always presume there are
things I still don't know. I then tend to get much more help and support than
if I approach things on a 'I'm right/your wrong' basis. Also, if I do turn out
to have a point a view that is not exactly right, it is then much easier for me
to take a new position or even the reverse position and move on.
> Not to repeat myself from an earlier post, but any pretense that
> Python's primary objective is readability went out the window with the
> invention of such constructs as "__del__", "__repr__", and
> "super(MyClass, self).__init__()". There are obviously other goals to
> the language's development that inspired these constructs and override
> the priority of readability.
No one said (that I know of) that readability is *the primary objective*. But
it is a very important guideline.
>> Here's an alternative test. Write a program to remove all the end of line
>> colons from pythons library and then write another separate program to put them
>> back in. Will it miss any? will it pass the python test suite?
>>
> I just may take you up on that. ;-) Not for a few days, though. Not
> enough time right now.
>
> - Mike
I believe you will find that exercise much more difficult than it seems, but I
may be wrong. Good luck if you try it, and let me know how it goes.
Ron
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