[Python-ideas] [Wild Idea] Static Ducks

[Gerald Britton]

Wow!  Python that looks a bit like Perl!  Larry and Guido reconciled!!
I love it!!!

+1000

On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Imri Goldberg <lorgandon at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Dj Gilcrease <digitalxero at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> [snip]
>>
>> Design Goals:
>>    The new syntax should
>>        * Be simple to read
>
> Personally, I'm -1 on this. Still, if you're already changing the syntax,
> you don't need the extra punctuation ( '$' in your examples). This could
> work just as well without them:
>
>>
>> Example:
>>    $int count = 0
>>
>>    $bool def check($string testValue):
>>        return testValue.lower() == "true"
>
> int count = 0
> bool def check(string testValue):
>     return testValue.lower() == "true"
>
> AFAIK, since today all these cases generate syntax errors, they are pretty
> unambiguous.
>
> Cheers,
> Imri
>
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