[Python-ideas] dot bend spoon

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Thu May 17 05:58:04 CEST 2007


Jim Jewett wrote:

> > or
> 
> > johnson.bend( spoon ) ?
> 
> Tell Johnson to bend a spoon.

or

   uri_geller.bend(spoon)

which doesn't actually bend the spoon, but makes the
rest of the program think it has been. :-)

More seriously, you can't say that one of these is better
than the other out of context. It depends on how the rest
of the program is designed.

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