On Mon, 19 May 2008 08:42:29 pm Lennart Regebro wrote:
How was it again? "One and only one way"? :-)
Certainly not. What on earth gave you the idea that that ridiculous statement is a Python philosophy? I know some Perl developers like to contrast the supposed flexibility of Perl ("more than one way to do it") with the imagined poverty of Python, but that really is a silly claim to make about any Turing Complete language. If nothing else, any programming language that lets you perform arithmetic would not be so restrictive: x = (1+2)*3 + 3*3 x = (3+2)*3 + 1*3 Which one should the compiler prohibit? I strongly suggest that you look at the Zen of Python:
import this The Zen of Python, by Tim Peters ... There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.
There should be ONE OBVIOUS way to do it, not "only one way". -- Steven