private variables/methods

[Alex Martelli]

Scott David Daniels wrote:

> Alex Martelli wrote:
>>    ...
>> I can't think of ANY "feechur" from other popular languages that hasn't
>> been asked for, thousands of times....
> Aha! caught the Martellibot in a rare memory failure (perhaps a rare
> double-bit parity error)?  To my knowledge, nobody has suggested the
> autodeclaration of variables which begin with the letters 'I' through
> 'N' as integer variables.  So there. :-)

Darn.  I should have added a word -- a "current" or "currently" somewhere.  
Arithmetic IF, variable types based on initial letter of the name, and 
other such features are not in the _currently_ popular versions of Fortran
(and I'm sure we can find early-60, now-deplored feechurs of Cobol or
RPG that are also rarely or never asked for).


> Now watch, he'll document 1003 requests on alt.lang.python.it.

that's it.comp.lang.python -- and I don't think I've met many old Fortran-IV 
hands there...


Alex