Re: mainly syntax
I agree with just about everything David Cunny just wrote!
[END OF SLICE]
> foo = bar[n..end]
is possibly more readable than foo = bar[n..-1], but -1 is somehow
more appealing to my warped mind. (I must have a look at your PP
again, David!)
Btw, what are the origins of this "foo" thing in computing? Am I
missing something here, because English is not my first language?
[Dots]
>Now, here's some irony. First, Jiri suggests that the ABC/Python syntax is
>too radical:
> if x then
> for i = 1 to x do
> do_something()
>
>and suggests writing:
>
>> if x then
>> for i = 1 to x do
>> do_something()..
>
>The end result is, although they are functionally different (Python pays
>attention to indentation, etc., etc.), they *look* exactly the same: only
>your example seems to have added the kind of syntactic verbiage you were
>trying to avoid in the first place.
Not so much irony, just a bit of an old fashioned compromise. I want
the brevity, but do not wish to impose any layout restrictions.
Basically, I want to keep the indentation style for my own purposes...
[The Tyranny of Compare]
Again, I agree, it should be compiler's job to sort out all possible
meanings of "=".
[Zero Indexing]
If you are a non-Mayan, it is perhaps initially a bit more natural to start
counting from one, but it becomes quite tedious quite quickly to be
force to add and subtract ones all the time. At least, the language
should give you a choice. Jiri
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