On 2006-09-07, Dennis Lee Bieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7 Sep 2006 06:53:44 -0700, "Omar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: >> 1) why don't python / idle use numbered lines in their >> scripting, like basic? how do you keep track of large batches >> of code without them? > > Because BASIC was created in the days of paper teletypes with > minimal editors. In BASIC, you would correct a line by retyping it with > the line number and the interpreter was responsible for "reordering" the > lines in memory. You could actually type a program in from last line to > first (ie, upside down) and it would run. > > NO other language that I know of uses line numbers to control > source code order. Heck, Visual BASIC doesn't use line numbers > either (I don't recall if AmigaBASIC required them either).
(Nope.) -- Neil Cerutti -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
