Re: OT: Auxlangs (was Re: "Esperanto V.2")

* Benct Philip Jonsson said on 2006-03-27 21:58:55 +0200
> taliesin the storyteller skrev:
>
> > > Whereas the corresponding program in Perl - the poster child for
> > > illegibility - is a single line that says 'print "Hello,
> > > world!\n";'. The only things you have to explain are the \n and
> > > maybe the semicolon.
> >
> > Can't help myself - in Python that would be 'print "Hello, world!"',
> > not even needing to explain a semicolon or a line shift :)
>
> Does this mean that each statement has to be on a single
> physical line in Python?
Nope, you can combine statements with a semicolon. It is redundant at
the end of a line.

Your... huge if... I would make a state-machine for:

def State1(*args, **kwargs):
    # bla whatever
    ...

def State2(*args, **kwargs):
    # bla different whatever
    ...
.
.
.

states = {'state1': State1,
          'state2': State2,
            ... }

runstate = sys.stdin.readline()

states[runstate]('foo', 1, previous_state='state2')

> >Rexx interestingly uses "say" instead of "print", even more concise.
>
> It *is* letters that come out, right?  Not sounds?
Letters, yes.


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