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From: Phlip on 18 Jan 2010 10:37 On Jan 18, 5:59 am, Anh Hai Trinh <anh.hai.tr...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Go uses := for assignment. > > Except that it doesn't. := is a declaration. Ah, and that's why Go is easy for cheap parsers to rip. Tx all! I was formerly too mortified to proceed - now I'm back in the Go camp. They fixed the hideous redundancy of Java without the ill-defined scope issues of Python & Ruby, and without the tacky little 'var' of JavaScript!
From: Steven D'Aprano on 18 Jan 2010 11:37 On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 03:03:26 -0800, Phlip wrote: > On Jan 12, 7:09 am, ikuta liu <ikut...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> Go language try to merge low level, hight level and browser language. > > Go uses := for assignment. > > This means, to appease the self-righteous indignation of the math > professor who would claim = should mean "equality"... > > ...you gotta type a shift and 2 characters for a very common operator. I doubt it has anything to do with "the math professor". Any maths professor will tell you that, in mathematics, = is used for both assignment and equality, since in maths they are the same thing. And besides, equality testing is no less common than assignment. To appease the "self-righteous indignation of the C coders", we have to type == instead of = for a very common operator. No matter what convention you use, you're going to upset some group of people. Seriously, I programmed in Pascal for many years, and typing := for assignment is not a burden. -- Steven
From: Steven D'Aprano on 18 Jan 2010 11:39 On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 07:37:36 -0800, Phlip wrote: > They fixed the hideous redundancy of Java without the ill-defined scope > issues of Python Which ill-defined scope issues are you referring to? -- Steven
From: MRAB on 18 Jan 2010 14:00 Phlip wrote: > On Jan 12, 7:09 am, ikuta liu <ikut...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> Go language try to merge low level, hight level and browser language. > > Go uses := for assignment. > > This means, to appease the self-righteous indignation of the math > professor who would claim = should mean "equality"... > > ...you gotta type a shift and 2 characters for a very common operator. > > Pass! > If I were going to list what I didn't like about Go, that wouldn't be one of them!
From: Albert van der Horst on 25 Jan 2010 09:26
In article <hij24v$e72$1(a)panix5.panix.com>, Aahz <aahz(a)pythoncraft.com> wrote: >In article <1b42700d-139a-4653-8669-d4ee2fc488b6(a)r5g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>, >ikuta liu <ikuta85(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >>Is python not good enough? for google, enhance python performance is >>the good way better then choose build Go language? > >It is not at all clear that -- despite some comments to the contrary -- >the Go developers are intending to compete with Python. Go seems much >more intended to compete with C++/Java. If they're successful, we may >eventually see GoPython. ;-) As far as I can tell, Go was not intended to compete with anything. It was their own itch they scratched. Then they opened it to the world, which I applaud. If Go was to compete with anything, they would have give it a name that was Googleable. ;-) >-- >Aahz (aahz(a)pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ Groetjes Albert -- -- Albert van der Horst, UTRECHT,THE NETHERLANDS Economic growth -- being exponential -- ultimately falters. albert(a)spe&ar&c.xs4all.nl &=n http://home.hccnet.nl/a.w.m.van.der.horst |