Re: A 'Python like' language

2012-03-03 Thread Mel Wilson
Paul Rubin wrote: > dreamingforw...@gmail.com writes: >>> hanging out on the Prothon list now and then, at least until we get >>> the core language sorted out? >> >> Haha, a little late, but consider this a restart. > > It wasn't til I saw the word "Prothon" that I scrolled back and saw you > wer

Re: A 'Python like' language

2012-03-02 Thread dreamingforward
On Tuesday, March 30, 2004 6:01:01 AM UTC-7, Gerrit wrote: > > > --Dict should inherit from Set. > > > > Also cool (I feel like the credits of Holy Grail saying Also wik). > > I have read (in c.l.py) that in Smalltalk, a Dict is a Set of Associates > or something similar. I don't know Smalltalk,

Re: A 'Python like' language

2012-03-02 Thread Paul Rubin
dreamingforw...@gmail.com writes: >> hanging out on the Prothon list now and then, at least until we get >> the core language sorted out? > > Haha, a little late, but consider this a restart. It wasn't til I saw the word "Prothon" that I scrolled back and saw you were responding to a thread from 2

Re: A 'Python like' language

2012-03-02 Thread dreamingforward
On Tuesday, March 30, 2004 12:31:35 AM UTC-7, Mark Hahn wrote: > > --Take advantage of iterators early on for return values to avoid > > things like having both dict.items() and dict.iteritems(). > > Interestiong idea. Generators are fully supported so I could do this now. > So gens would have to

Re: A 'Python like' language

2005-02-09 Thread frnknstn
> Well I considered writing a pep to move all that stuff to a module > called __icky__, you know: > > from __icky__ import * I think that should be: from __icky__ import import_asterisk import_asterisk __icky__ Frnknstn - This message was sent usin

Re: A 'Python like' language

2005-02-09 Thread Courageous
>We really need in Python a clear separation of advanced features from >the basic syntax. No more lambda calculus in the basic part. :>) Well I considered writing a pep to move all that stuff to a module called __icky__, you know: from __icky__ import * ... but I didn't think the committee wou