Re: Implement C's Switch in Python 3 [OT languages]

2019-02-07 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 05.02.19 um 02:20 schrieb DL Neil: So, even with the French making their dates into sentences, not a single one uses ordinals! - did the computer people in all these languages/cultures decide that the more numeric approach was better/easier/... (ie simpler/less-complex) :) For the two

Re: Implement C's Switch in Python 3 [OT languages]

2019-02-04 Thread DL Neil
On 4/02/19 9:25 PM, Christian Gollwitzer wrote: Am 04.02.19 um 09:18 schrieb Christian Gollwitzer: I think English is quite "unique" with writing out the ending of the ordinals attached to arabic numerals. Of course, there is a Wikipedia page about it:

Re: Implement C's Switch in Python 3 [OT languages]

2019-02-04 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 04.02.19 um 09:18 schrieb Christian Gollwitzer: I think English is quite "unique" with writing out the ending of the ordinals attached to arabic numerals. Of course, there is a Wikipedia page about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal_indicator So I was wrong and the

Re: Implement C's Switch in Python 3 [OT languages]

2019-02-04 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 04.02.19 um 04:11 schrieb DL Neil: > On 4/02/19 10:00 AM, Christian Gollwitzer wrote: Am 03.02.19 um 09:32 schrieb DL Neil: Now back to ordinal dates - the "st", "th", etc suffixes only work in English. You'd need another list (but no great coding complexity) to cope with a second, third,