I knew i was suspicious of python for a reason
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Not just "significant whitespace" but "significant matching whitespace". So two identical seeming lines can be unmatched because one uses TABs and one uses spaces. Heck, even the editor you use is significant in Python. I'm becoming convinced that it was designed because the author thought VB wasn't quite "Mickey Mouse" enough. :sigh:
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It's a shame, because there's a lot to like about python but the grammar always turned me off of it.
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The grammar for python is ridiculous to me. Significant whitespace being the leading cause of my WTF. But I just taught myself python so i could try out some particular python code in C# I'm looking through some examples and i find this gem:
multiple = 1024 if a_kilobyte_is_1024_bytes else 1000
Which presumably means
var multiple = (a_kilobyte_is_1024_bytes)?1024:1000;
WTF and then there's pass. Pass seems like it should never exist in any language. That is all.
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The grammar for python is ridiculous to me. Significant whitespace being the leading cause of my WTF. But I just taught myself python so i could try out some particular python code in C# I'm looking through some examples and i find this gem:
multiple = 1024 if a_kilobyte_is_1024_bytes else 1000
Which presumably means
var multiple = (a_kilobyte_is_1024_bytes)?1024:1000;
WTF and then there's pass. Pass seems like it should never exist in any language. That is all.
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honey the codewitch wrote:
Pass seems like it should never exist in any language.
Ha ha, I just used it today for the first time.
did it make you feel dirty? :laugh:
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honey the codewitch wrote:
and then there's pass. Pass seems like it should never exist in any language.
Like, a keyword? Maybe it's there to serve as a warning...those who know, should pass on any language that has a "pass" keyword...
Yeah, it's a keyword. It's like a non-op used to cajole the parser into accepting a "statement" where you don't want one. Or at least that's what I've gleaned of it so far. There may be other uses. In any case, it's ridiculous.
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The grammar for python is ridiculous to me. Significant whitespace being the leading cause of my WTF. But I just taught myself python so i could try out some particular python code in C# I'm looking through some examples and i find this gem:
multiple = 1024 if a_kilobyte_is_1024_bytes else 1000
Which presumably means
var multiple = (a_kilobyte_is_1024_bytes)?1024:1000;
WTF and then there's pass. Pass seems like it should never exist in any language. That is all.
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Always be wary of scripting languages.
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Always be wary of scripting languages.
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Always be wary of scripting languages.
I generally am. I haven't found one I like yet.
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The grammar for python is ridiculous to me. Significant whitespace being the leading cause of my WTF. But I just taught myself python so i could try out some particular python code in C# I'm looking through some examples and i find this gem:
multiple = 1024 if a_kilobyte_is_1024_bytes else 1000
Which presumably means
var multiple = (a_kilobyte_is_1024_bytes)?1024:1000;
WTF and then there's pass. Pass seems like it should never exist in any language. That is all.
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honey the codewitch wrote:
Pass seems like it should never exist in any language.
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The equivalent of Python's
passin C, C++, and C#. Most useful as a loop body when the loop construct does all of the work.Software Zen:
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honey the codewitch wrote:
Pass seems like it should never exist in any language.
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The equivalent of Python's
passin C, C++, and C#. Most useful as a loop body when the loop construct does all of the work.Software Zen:
delete this;ah, fair enough. Gosh, I don't like the look of it though.
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The grammar for python is ridiculous to me. Significant whitespace being the leading cause of my WTF. But I just taught myself python so i could try out some particular python code in C# I'm looking through some examples and i find this gem:
multiple = 1024 if a_kilobyte_is_1024_bytes else 1000
Which presumably means
var multiple = (a_kilobyte_is_1024_bytes)?1024:1000;
WTF and then there's pass. Pass seems like it should never exist in any language. That is all.
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The Python seems more readable that the statement with a ternary expression. I have just started learning python, but the `if/else` is very clear to me.
"'Do what thou wilt...' is to bid Stars to shine, Vines to bear grapes, Water to seek its level; man is the only being in Nature that has striven to set himself at odds with himself." —Aleister Crowley
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The grammar for python is ridiculous to me. Significant whitespace being the leading cause of my WTF. But I just taught myself python so i could try out some particular python code in C# I'm looking through some examples and i find this gem:
multiple = 1024 if a_kilobyte_is_1024_bytes else 1000
Which presumably means
var multiple = (a_kilobyte_is_1024_bytes)?1024:1000;
WTF and then there's pass. Pass seems like it should never exist in any language. That is all.
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The different order of notation doesn't seem that worthy of a WTF. That's just a bit getting used to, nothing more. The real WTFs with Python I've seen are negative notation for hexadecimal numbers instead of two's complement and the inability to find the entry point in anything remotely complex because Python doesn't have a main method, it's just a script language evaluating from the top. Doesn't help when debugging control flow.
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The grammar for python is ridiculous to me. Significant whitespace being the leading cause of my WTF. But I just taught myself python so i could try out some particular python code in C# I'm looking through some examples and i find this gem:
multiple = 1024 if a_kilobyte_is_1024_bytes else 1000
Which presumably means
var multiple = (a_kilobyte_is_1024_bytes)?1024:1000;
WTF and then there's pass. Pass seems like it should never exist in any language. That is all.
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HA HA HA.... Excellent. COBOL 2 point O What goes around, comes around.
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The grammar for python is ridiculous to me. Significant whitespace being the leading cause of my WTF. But I just taught myself python so i could try out some particular python code in C# I'm looking through some examples and i find this gem:
multiple = 1024 if a_kilobyte_is_1024_bytes else 1000
Which presumably means
var multiple = (a_kilobyte_is_1024_bytes)?1024:1000;
WTF and then there's pass. Pass seems like it should never exist in any language. That is all.
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honey the codewitch wrote:
Pass seems like it should never exist in any language.
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The equivalent of Python's
passin C, C++, and C#. Most useful as a loop body when the loop construct does all of the work.Software Zen:
delete this;I always feel dirty when there's the need to do that. I usually just unravel the loop construct so there's a loop body.
cheers Chris Maunder
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The grammar for python is ridiculous to me. Significant whitespace being the leading cause of my WTF. But I just taught myself python so i could try out some particular python code in C# I'm looking through some examples and i find this gem:
multiple = 1024 if a_kilobyte_is_1024_bytes else 1000
Which presumably means
var multiple = (a_kilobyte_is_1024_bytes)?1024:1000;
WTF and then there's pass. Pass seems like it should never exist in any language. That is all.
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As someone who taught a few CS courses... for a NEW programmer, the Python Syntax makes MORE sense than the C style syntax. x = 3 if I_Need_A_Small_Number else 3333 which is even cleaner in error checking: addError("You can't have this") if X = 0 addError("You can't have this") if Y = 0 ... showErrors() This was a feature of DEC Basic-Plus 2 (I called it an outside if) and in a world where something had to be tweaked in a block of code, and you did not want to affect program flow... Wow, it was a gift. The C syntax is best explained as a "fake function" IIF() => X = IIF(cond, true_val, false_val); but invariably the kids ask the correct question: Wouldn't that be BETTER/CLEARER syntax? (And I would explain that is why we have a PRE-PROCESSOR, LOL). And again, I LOVE the PL/SQL DECODE() statement, which is "?:" on Steroids: X = Decode(v0, V1, R1, V2, R2, V3, R3, R4) -> Where R4 (the extra param is the ELSE condition) It is literally a CASE statement in function form! That said. Python has ONE THING I absolutely hate. THE WHITESPACE inequity. I wish they treated a single tab as 2 spaces. Life would be simply. My editors convert Tabs to spaces. But ONLY when I edit a line. OMFG this *might* be bad in Python. LOL.
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honey the codewitch wrote:
and then there's pass. Pass seems like it should never exist in any language.
Like, a keyword? Maybe it's there to serve as a warning...those who know, should pass on any language that has a "pass" keyword...
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As someone who taught a few CS courses... for a NEW programmer, the Python Syntax makes MORE sense than the C style syntax. x = 3 if I_Need_A_Small_Number else 3333 which is even cleaner in error checking: addError("You can't have this") if X = 0 addError("You can't have this") if Y = 0 ... showErrors() This was a feature of DEC Basic-Plus 2 (I called it an outside if) and in a world where something had to be tweaked in a block of code, and you did not want to affect program flow... Wow, it was a gift. The C syntax is best explained as a "fake function" IIF() => X = IIF(cond, true_val, false_val); but invariably the kids ask the correct question: Wouldn't that be BETTER/CLEARER syntax? (And I would explain that is why we have a PRE-PROCESSOR, LOL). And again, I LOVE the PL/SQL DECODE() statement, which is "?:" on Steroids: X = Decode(v0, V1, R1, V2, R2, V3, R3, R4) -> Where R4 (the extra param is the ELSE condition) It is literally a CASE statement in function form! That said. Python has ONE THING I absolutely hate. THE WHITESPACE inequity. I wish they treated a single tab as 2 spaces. Life would be simply. My editors convert Tabs to spaces. But ONLY when I edit a line. OMFG this *might* be bad in Python. LOL.
significant whitespace in a programming language is just a terrible idea
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The grammar for python is ridiculous to me. Significant whitespace being the leading cause of my WTF. But I just taught myself python so i could try out some particular python code in C# I'm looking through some examples and i find this gem:
multiple = 1024 if a_kilobyte_is_1024_bytes else 1000
Which presumably means
var multiple = (a_kilobyte_is_1024_bytes)?1024:1000;
WTF and then there's pass. Pass seems like it should never exist in any language. That is all.
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I don't get the hate on python. It's a typical 1980s language. It is what it is because it's a product of the time it was invented in. You can't apply today's values to a language whose syntax was designed almost 40 years ago and expect it to hold up. Yeah, I know C was around back then, and is the dominant syntax today, but back then, C didn't have much penetration and Fortran was king. Python is kind of an ugly stepchild of Fortran, and shows it.
I live in Oregon, and I'm an engineer.
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I don't get the hate on python. It's a typical 1980s language. It is what it is because it's a product of the time it was invented in. You can't apply today's values to a language whose syntax was designed almost 40 years ago and expect it to hold up. Yeah, I know C was around back then, and is the dominant syntax today, but back then, C didn't have much penetration and Fortran was king. Python is kind of an ugly stepchild of Fortran, and shows it.
I live in Oregon, and I'm an engineer.
patbob wrote:
Python is kind of an ugly stepchild of Fortran
The explains a lot. Honestly, I didn't know Python was that old. However, significant whitespace there's really no excuse for in any language, as the problems with it - both lexing it and using it - were pretty well known by the 1980s, AFAIK. :sigh: That's why i'll never adopt it. Half my editors won't even work with it very well. (tabs to spaces can easily kill a python program)
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