Notes IV

[bearophile]

Jarrod:
> But there will still be a comma or a semicolon there for cases where you 
> want the index.

Yes, like:
foreach(i, el in obj)
So the problem I was talking about is solved, because you can only have commas there, and no semicolons. And it's not easy to mistake a comma for the "in".


> there are a *lot* of 
> groans and moans about it. *Especially* from the lisp/scheme fans. They 
> seem to hate it with a passion.

And some of them (but not the AI expert Norvig, he has re-invented something like that) don't like the Python doctests, that I love (and I miss when I program in D):
http://docs.python.org/lib/module-doctest.html


> Some have even written some 'interesting' poems about it. True story.

Maybe they are envious that today Python has much more success than their languages, despite being an "inferior" language ;-)

Bye,
bearophile