[Python-Dev] Re: accumulator display syntax

Moore, Paul Paul.Moore at atosorigin.com
Mon Oct 20 11:51:04 EDT 2003


From: Alex Martelli [mailto:aleaxit at yahoo.com]
>> Hmm, just had a strange thought:
>>
>>    y = copy of x
>>
>> How would that be for executable pseudocode? It's entirely possible to do

> Awesomely pseudocoder (what a comparative...!-) wrt the current "y = 
> copy.copy(x)".  You WOULD need to "from copy import copy" first, presumably,
> but still...

Did I miss April 1st? We seem to be discussing the merits of

    f of arg

as an alternative form of

   f(arg)

While I'm sure Cobol had some good points, I don't believe that this was one
of them...

If there is any merit to this proposal, it's very rapidly being lost in
examples of rewriting things which are simple function calls.

Paul.



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