[Python-ideas] Decorator syntax restriction

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Sep 10 02:52:44 CEST 2009


George Sakkis wrote:

> Any such proof or even discussion should take into account what the
> primitives (atoms and allowed operations) are.

Probably you should include the size of the documentation
of the primitives used in your programming language
manual, any other well-known literature they implicitly
refer to, etc.

> If not, here is a
> solution that is short both in code and documentation:
> 
>      game_of_life().solve()

But then you need to go and find a paper describing
the game of life and the algorithm being used to
solve it and include its length!

-- 
Greg



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