Comments on: another reason to hate python

By: blodgett

blodgett — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:18:26 +0000

was looking for something useful but found this instead

cakesniffer — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 21:42:29 +0000

Took a long time to reply to that! Ada has some very useful features…

blodgett — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:54:29 +0000

whut

cakesniffer — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:24:40 +0000

IIRC Ada lets you use any base between 2-32 e.g. 10#10#, 2#1010#, 16#A#, 11#A#, etc.

doik — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:25:59 +0000

i wonder why people don’t extend the 0x like syntax more. it seems perfectly natural to have 0xA, 0rX, and 0b1010 all be 10.

cakesniffer — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:42:07 +0000

Lolz – posted that before I read the rest of the linked article which mentions LISP-envy :p

cakesniffer — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:39:22 +0000

Pfft. Python should learn from proper languages which support this useful feature. Common Lisp, for example.

In fact, CL supports /two/ different types of Roman numerals – i.e. can write 9 as IV or IIII:

[5]> (format t “~@r” 2009)
MMIX
NIL
[6]> (format t “~:@r” 2009)
MMVIIII
NIL