Not to wax poetic about our pasts, Thomas, but I do did not start with
PASCAL and used quite a few languages before and plenty after. At the time
it had interesting contrasts to languages like BASIC, FORTRAN and LISP and I
tended to use whatever was available on the machines I was using. My first
c
On 1/1/2023 9:14 PM, avi.e.gr...@gmail.com wrote:
Thomas,
I used PASCAL before C and I felt like I was wearing a straitjacket
at times in PASCAL when I was trying to write encryption/decryption
functions and had to find ways to fiddle with bits. Similar things
were easy in C, and are even easier
Re: Nonetype List
In my introductory programming course, I have drawn some attention to this
behavior regarding mutating lists. Indeed, Python is very consistent with its
behavior:
Any function that mutates a list parameter does not return that list as a
return value.
For one thing, there is
Thomas,
I used PASCAL before C and I felt like I was wearing a straitjacket at times
in PASCAL when I was trying to write encryption/decryption functions and had
to find ways to fiddle with bits. Similar things were easy in C, and are
even easier in many more recent languages such as Python.
The
Thank you, guys, thank you very much!
I'm amazed by the time and effort so many of you have put into the answers.
And at this time of year!
Not only is the issue clear to me now, but I learned a lot (and I'm still
to learn a lot more) from your answers and the links you provided. And not
only about
Several of you have mentioned the role of history in the development of
languages and what the founders of a language were trying to improve.
As noted with PASCAL, some earlier languages strived to be different things
and in a certain sense, their procedures were perhaps seen as a safer and
better
On 1/1/2023 8:47 AM, Stefan Ram wrote:
Thomas Passin writes:
Guido had been working on the ABC language for some years before he
developed Python. ABC was intended mainly as a teaching and prototyping
language.
In those days, there used to be a language called "Pascal".
Pascal had a di
On 2022-12-28 19:07:06 +, MRAB wrote:
> On 2022-12-28 18:42, Alexander Richert - NOAA Affiliate via Python-list
> wrote:
> > print(re.sub(".*", "replacement", "pattern"))
> > yields the output "replacementreplacement".
[...]
> It's not a bug, it's a change in behaviour to bring it more into lin
Thank you, guys, thank you very much!
I'm amazed by the time and effort so many of you have put into the answers.
And at this time of year!
Not only is the issue clear to me now, but I learned a lot (and I'm still
to learn a lot more) from your answers and the links you provided. And not
only about
On 12/31/2022 10:17 PM, avi.e.gr...@gmail.com wrote:
Agreed, there are lots of pro/con arguments and the feature is what it is
historically and not trivial to change. Inline changes to an object make
sense to just be done "silently" and if there are errors, they propagate the
usual way.
As Guid
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