From: Daniel Schierbeck <daniel.schierbeck@...>
Date: 2005-12-21T21:32:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Bruce Eckel wouldn't know why to switch from Python to Ruby

gabriele renzi wrote:
> Devin Mullins ha scritto:
>> Everything is object.method syntax (or, even cooler, delegated to a 
>> method, like the for...in syntax).
> 
> just to say for..in is delegated to a method in python too, and they 
> even delegate  "if obj" to a method call :)

That's so cool. We need that. Now. Generally, though, I think Python's 
__underscore__ convention is pretty annoying, though I can see why you 
wouldn't want to add predefined semantics to general words like "new", 
"get", etc.


Cheers,
Daniel