From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2003-08-19T16:29:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Question: immutable strings as design goal?

> While we're still on the subject of Python and Guido Von Rossum's blog
> entry, I noted the following:
>
> "but for me the high point of the evening was Miguel de Icaza's
> excitement over Python's feature which makes text files iterators
> yielding the lines of the file in succession, so that you can write
>
> for line in open(filename):
>        ...process line... "
>
> At which point I sighed.
>
> Regards,
>
> Mark


Yeah, and it's funny how he remarks about other languages allegedly
stealing features from Python but crediting CLU etc. instead!

Cheers,
Gavin