On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 12:09 AM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore@gmail.com> wrote:
On 27 September 2011 05:12, Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> wrote:
"our" is something in Perl, right? My proposal was "own", which is much older (Algol-60). Probably nobody else here remembers it.
I do :-)
Not sure that Algol-60 using it is a good enough reason for recommending it, though. The name didn't make sense to me even back then... (Actually, after this discussion, the logic is clearer - so congratulations, Nick, for clarifying a 40-year old puzzle for me!)
In the days of Algol-60 they were pretty bad at explaining things. I was puzzled by "own" as well. (However, the biggest mystery for me, for a long time, were pointers in Pascal. It didn't clear up until I learned assembly.)
Call by name, anyone?
ABC, Python's predecessor, had it, IIRC. -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)