Python vs. Perl, which is better to learn?

Kragen Sitaker kragen at pobox.com
Sat May 25 13:43:26 EDT 2002


Alex Martelli <aleax at aleax.it> writes:
> Find-matching-paren makes short work of that.  If anything, the
> problems with refactoring in C++ or Java come from their horrid
> choice of leaving this / self *IMPLICIT* -- so a reference to
> any name X may or may not mean self.X / this->X and the poor
> editor can hardly help you with THAT as you move code between
> classes (or, in C++, from in-class to out-of-class)...

I don't see why the editor can't help you with that --- it's
statically decidable.




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