Steve Holden wrote: > It took a little bit more careful planning to get Icon pattern-matching > structures right, but there was much more explicit control of > backtracking. I only wish they'd grafted more OO concepts into it, then > I might never have bothered with Python! Someone did do an OO system > layered on top of it, but IIRC it was clumsy and rebarbative.
OT, but I just wanted to say, "rebarbative" is my word of the day for today thanks to this post. I consider myself to have a reasonably comprehensive vocabulary but that's a new one for me, so I had to look it up after your post ;) -Jay -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
