Python "with"

Bruno Desthuilliers bruno.42.desthuilliers at wtf.websiteburo.oops.com
Mon Sep 17 10:59:14 EDT 2007


Grant Edwards a écrit :
> On 2007-09-17, Laurent Pointal <laurent.pointal at limsi.fr> wrote:
> 
>> Note3: Its funny to see how Python users tries to change the language, 
>> does this occure with C, C++, Java, C# ?
> 
> Yes.  I remember somebody I worked with once who write a C
> program using a whole pile of macros to make it look like BASIC:
> 
> #define IF  if (
> #define THEN ) {
> #define ELSE } else {
> #define ENDIF }
> 
> and so on...

FWIW and IIRC, one of the rationales for C preprocessor macros was to 
let Pascal programmers make C looks like Pascal !-)



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