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Irksome for 5 minutes...

Posted Mar 29, 2005 23:38 UTC (Tue) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630)
In reply to: Irksome for 5 minutes... by piman
Parent article: Evidence that Python is advancing into the enterprise (NewsForge)

if ($you_do_this) {
    print("There is the ending brace, true.\n");
    print("But most people leave blank lines at logical places,\n");
    print("even in Python.\n);
    print("And you could always do this, though I don't like it.\n");   }


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Irksome for 5 minutes...

Posted Mar 30, 2005 2:35 UTC (Wed) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047) [Link]

(with-possible-alternative (proposal)
  (if (equal (type-of expressions) symbolic)
     (and (not (space-wasted anywhere)
     (arranged-logically (readable code)))))

Irksome for 5 minutes...

Posted Mar 30, 2005 3:49 UTC (Wed) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630) [Link]

(find-it (hard i to)
 organize-around (brain my) lispish reordering
 (even-though (programmed i) (lisp in) (years (3) for)))

Irksome for 5 minutes...

Posted Mar 30, 2005 4:52 UTC (Wed) by donio (subscriber, #94) [Link]

I find it hard to believe that prefix notation is confusing to you after programming in Lisp for 3 years unless you have had a complete brain transplant since. Unlike you, I don't have 3 years of Lisp programming experience under my belt, I am only a causual user of Emacs Lisp and Common Lisp but prefix notation and syntax in general has never been a problem for me.

Irksome for 5 minutes...

Posted Mar 30, 2005 2:38 UTC (Wed) by tjc (guest, #137) [Link]

if ($you_are_like_me)
{
        print("You might not have even realized...");
        print("...that there's a world-wide shortage of braces and newlines.\n");
}

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