Perl is worse!

[Huaiyu Zhu]

On Sat, 29 Jul 2000 00:50:46 GMT, Steve Lamb <grey at despair.rpglink.com> wrote:
>On Fri, 28 Jul 2000 17:37:43 -0700, Erik Max Francis <max at alcyone.com> wrote:
>>>     Mmmm, in as far as I can read that, yes.  It is the operation that
>>> determines the type of the data, not the data in and of itself.
>
>>Not in a strongly typed language like Python, it doesn't.
>
>    Pardon my french but... no shit sherlock.  That has been my point all the
>long.  I feel that such a thing, as is somewhat evident in Perl, is not the
>bad thing that some people in Python make it out to be.  I never once claimed
>that Python did it.  
>

You seem to want Python operations to depend on the context as Perl dos. You
may be interested in reading my simple analysis of why this is bad

http://www.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2000-July/109243.html

The key point is that a good language should not force a reader maintain a
very complicated mental picture while reading the code - you understand a
block of code independently of the context it is used, and when you use it
elsewhere you do not need to understand how it's implemented. 

Huaiyu