Bill Baxter, el 23 de octubre a las 08:51 me escribiste: > > list ~= array(iota(0, 10)); > > While we're not on the subject.... > "Iota" is right up there with "inSitu". > I know it has a precedent elsewhere, but it sounds about as user > friendly as monads. It just sounds like the language it trying to be > snooty. Like "if you don't even know what iota is, you're clearly not > qualified to join our little D club. Maybe you should try Java... or > Logo". Compare that to Python where it's called "range", something > every Joe the Programmer can certainly grok without having to get a > Greek to English dictionary.
Thanks for mention this, now I don't feel *that* idiotic to have to go and search what iota means every time I see it =) -- Leandro Lucarella (AKA luca) http://llucax.com.ar/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- GPG Key: 5F5A8D05 (F8CD F9A7 BF00 5431 4145 104C 949E BFB6 5F5A 8D05) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Did you know the originally a Danish guy invented the burglar-alarm unfortunately, it got stolen
