On 9/1/05, Barry Warsaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 10:58, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>
> > [Reinhold Birkenfeld]
> > > You'd have to enclose print arguments in parentheses. Of course, the
> > > "trailing
> > > comma" form would be lost.
> >
> > And good riddance! The print statement harks back to ABC and even
> > (unvisual) Basic. Out with it!
>
> I have to strongly disagree. The print statement is simple, easy to
> understand, and easy to use.
I agree with Barry. In particular, the behaviour of adding spaces
between items is something I find very useful, and it's missing from
the functional forms.
print greeting, name
feels much more natural to me than
write(greeting, " ", name)
or
writef("%s %s", greeting, name)
And that's even worse if the original used a literal "Hello", and only
later migrated to a variable greeting - remembering to get the spaces
in the right place is a pain:
print "Hello", name ==> print greeting, name
write("Hello ", name) ==> write(greeting, name) # oops, forgot the space
or write(greeting, " ", name) #
non-obvious translation
OK, it's a minor thing, but what's the benefit?
I've used print functions a lot in things like VBScript and
Javascript, and hated them every time...
Paul.
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