Python grammar..

Steve Holden sholden at holdenweb.com
Thu Jun 14 01:35:20 EDT 2001


"Greg Ewing" <see at my.signature> wrote in message
news:3B28458C.F171FDB0 at my.signature...
> "Delaney, Timothy" wrote:
> >
> >         a 1     ' OK
> >         a(1)    ' memory leak
>
> The "memory leak" part of that sounds like a bug in the
> implementation. It doesn't say anything about the merits
> or otherwise of the syntax.
>
Probably not, but if there'd been only one way to call procedures at least
Microsoft would have been forced to fix the problem rather than accepting
two syntaxes but only implementing one correctly. VB is, in any case, a
total dog's breakfast from a language point of view.

regards
 Steve
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