PEP 420 is accepted... and __init__.py won't be required in future Pythons

pje · 2012-05-25T08:35:18.361057+00:00

Yeah, I think I've explained it to my wife on at least two separate occasions (this year's 4/20 and some year in the past). I think most people aren't really aware of it.

Greg4cr · 2012-05-25T08:27:27.370545+00:00

GB Tetris is my President.

pje · 2012-05-25T08:22:27.376339+00:00

If I don't survive, tell my wife, "Hello."

linucs · 2012-05-25T06:08:12.637994+00:00

Xcode itself is free. You have to pay $100 for the right to submit apps to the App Store though.

efarrer · 2012-05-24T22:38:29.369290+00:00

As I see it, there's not much practical difference between returning an error value and having a checked exception in Java. In both cases, the caller is made explicitly aware that "Hey, this thing you're calling can very easily screw up in this particular way!" Then you can either deal with it, semi-manually pass the error up the chain, or just ignore it with an empty catch (Java) or setting it to _ (Go).

Panics are basically like unchecked exceptions. They can happen deep in the call stack at any time and destroy your whole program, so it's the job of library writers to try to keep them from happening if at all possible.

The advantage of the Go-system over the Java-system is that the two kinds of exceptions are syntactically different enough that users are made aware that the first kind are normal and the second kind are not. Also Go probably gets better performance with return values, although I'm not sure if that's true.

ChainSmokingPanda · 1 day

Ugh, don't use GoDaddy for anything ever.

BaltoRouberol · 3 days

Second order? You can use quantifiers in first, my friend.

Besides, in Aristotelian logic people debated for centuries about whether or not all unicorns have horns. So, it's fair to ask why Python chooses to side with modern logic.

omginternets · 4 days

Using a list expression where you should use a genexp is a common error for things written in the 2.4 days when Python was first getting big.

omginternets · 4 days

There's a big argument in the philosophy of language about whether "p is true" has any meaning over and above just "p." If not, then maybe the word true doesn't have any specific content. This is called the deflationary account of truth.

omginternets · 4 days

It's not a big deal. In Python 2 some little things like properties go wonky if you don't inherit from object. It's just a glitch in Python 2 more than a deep philosophical difference unless you're a deep Python internals ninja.

omginternets · 4 days

If your class is going to be a singleton, what's the advantage over a module level global?

mr_chromatic · 4 days

Perl 6 has always been at war with Eastasia!

mr_chromatic · 4 days

The genius of your comment is that anyone old enough to program in Perl is old enough to know about Endless September.

gthank · 4 days

It creates more problems than it solves though. Code reuse through encapsulation works much more simply and without crazy MRO diagrams.

gthank · 4 days

Moral of the story: never use multiple inheritance.

haridas · 4 days

Seemed fine to me.

stesch · 5 days

C++ is an octopus made by nailing four legs onto a dog. D looked at that octopus and said, "I know how to make a millipede!"

yannisrizos · 5 days

If they don't finish they won't return. You plan to have a site for longer than one day.

yannisrizos · 5 days

It's web design.

c0balt279 · 7 days

The one on video game controllers never actually ended, they just stopped broadcasting it in this universe.

jongalloway · 8 days

Child abuse.

sidcool1234 · 8 days

Different regions label the key differently. In the US, it's labeled alt and option, no symbol.

sublimepua · 8 days

My understanding is that the Go dev team strongly prefers static linking. I don't think it will every change to dynamic linking under their watch, but maybe someone will start a fork that will do what you want.

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