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rafael
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Monday March 14, 2005
03:54 AM

There must be only one way to do it

[ #23638 ]

Even with a better name, I think having the two choices side-by-side just requires programmers to think about making a choice that's irrelevant for their program; not having the choice streamlines the thought process. -- Guido van Rossum

Does this mean that if Guido was a linguist, he would have loved newspeak ?


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  • So... since
    $counter++;
    is just shorthand for
    $counter += 1;
    and that is just shorthand for
    $counter = $counter + 1;
    I guess only having the last one would streamline the thought process in a brilliant way.
    • Hm...

      Python 1.5.2 (#0, Sep 17 2002, 20:29:27)  [GCC 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)] on linux2
      Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
      >>> counter = 1
      >>> counter += 1
        File "<stdin>", line 1
          counter += 1
                   ^
      SyntaxError: invalid syntax
      >>> counter++
        File "<stdin>", line 1
          counter++
                  ^
      SyntaxError: invalid syntax

      (Later ver

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