Paul> Sorry I wasn't clear. Let's say it's the second hour of our
Paul> Perl/Python class.
Paul> Here's Perl:
Paul> $a = 5;
Paul> $b = 6;
Paul> print "$a $b";
...
Paul> Here's Python:
Paul> a = 5;
Paul> b = 6;
Paul> print "%(a)s %(b)s" % vars()
So? There are some things Perl does better than Python, some things Python
does better than Perl. Maybe this is a (small) notch in Perl's gun. It
just doesn't seem significantly better enough to me to warrant a language
change. I would have written the Python example as
print a, b
For the simple examples that would normally arise in an introductory
programming class, I think Python's print statement works just fine. For
more hairy cases, Perl probably wins. That's life.
but-that's-just-me-ly, y'rs,
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Skip Montanaro (skip@pobox.com - http://www.mojam.com/)
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