Assignment Versus Equality

[Rustom Mody]

On Tuesday, June 28, 2016 at 9:55:39 AM UTC+5:30, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> sohcahtoa82:
> 
> > On Monday, June 27, 2016 at 7:09:35 AM UTC-7, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> >> Grant Edwards :
> >> > Were there other languages that did something similar?
> >> 
> >> In XML, whitespace between tags is significant unless the document type
> >> says otherwise. On the other hand, leading and trailing space in
> >> attribute values is insignificant unless the document type says
> >> otherwise.
> >> 
> >> > Why would a language designer think it a good idea?
> >> >
> >> > Did the poor sod who wrote the compiler think it was a good idea?
> >> 
> >> Fortran is probably not too hard to parse. XML, on the other hand, is
> >> impossible to parse without the document type at hand. The document type
> >> not only defines the whitespace semantics but also the availability and
> >> meaning of the "entities" (e.g., © for ©). Add namespaces to that,
> >> and the mess is complete.
> >
> > XML isn't a programming language. I don't think it's relevant to the
> > conversation.
> 
> The question was about (formal) languages, not only programming
> languages.
> 
> However, there are programming languages with XML syntax:
> 
>    <URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XSLT>
>    <URL: http://www.o-xml.org/spec/langspec.html>
>    <URL: http://xplusplus.sourceforge.net/>

Seriously?!
You need to justify talking XML on a python list?

Which kind of 'python' this list is about?

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