[Python-Dev] Re: accumulator display syntax
Guido van Rossum
guido at python.org
Mon Oct 20 12:40:04 EDT 2003
> 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.
Amen. *If* we were to introduce 'of' as an operator, at least it
should introduce some as-yet-unsupported parameter passing semantics,
like call-by-name. :-)
And in fact, I think that
sum(x for x in range(10))
reads *better* than
sum of x for x in range(10)
and certainly better than
sum of x for x in range of 10
because when you squint, it just becomes a series of undistinguished
words, like
xxx xx x xxx x xx xxxxx xx xx
--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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