Claudio Grondi wrote: >>And you can do block comments with --[[ and ---]]. >> >> > >I am very happy not to have such "tricks" in Python. > >Any other (useful) suggestions? > >Claudio > > I'm glad and all that not everyone shares my enthusiasm over Lua's trick, and I'm glad that C/C++ can do it, but the original issue was non-python language tricks in general. Lets keep the thread on track.
So far we've got lisp macros and a thousand response's to the lua trick. Anyone else have any actual non-python language tricks they like? Yeesh. >"Joseph Garvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag >news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >>As someone who learned C first, when I came to Python everytime I read >>about a new feature it was like, "Whoa! I can do that?!" Slicing, dir(), >>getattr/setattr, the % operator, all of this was very different from C. >> >>I'm curious -- what is everyone's favorite trick from a non-python >>language? And -- why isn't it in Python? >> >>Here's my current candidate: >> >>So the other day I was looking at the language Lua. In Lua, you make a >>line a comment with two dashes: >> >>-- hey, this is a comment. >> >>And you can do block comments with --[[ and ---]]. >> >>--[[ >>hey >>this >>is >>a >>big >>comment >>--]] >> >>This syntax lets you do a nifty trick, where you can add or subtract a >>third dash to change whether or not code runs: >> >>--This code won't run because it's in a comment block >>--[[ >>print(10) >>--]] >> >>--This code will, because the first two dashes make the rest a comment, >>breaking the block >>---[[ >>print(10) >>--]] >> >>So you can change whether or not code is commented out just by adding a >>dash. This is much nicer than in C or Python having to get rid of """ or >>/* and */. Of course, the IDE can compensate. But it's still neat :) >> >> > > > > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list