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Undefined behaviour in C [was Re: The Cost of Dynamism]

BartC bc at freeuk.com
Sun Mar 27 16:18:58 EDT 2016 
On 27/03/2016 18:19, Ned Batchelder wrote:
> On Sunday, March 27, 2016 at 12:58:23 PM UTC-4, BartC wrote:

>> There would be a list of expression terms that can also form independent
>> statements. Not knowing Python, the list would comprise function calls
>> (ie. the function call is top node in the AST of the expression), and
>> docstrings.
>
> It's a little frustrating to discuss language design when you claim not to
> know Python.  Perhaps you could devote some off-list time to learning it? :)

Since the language is presumably available to anyone including 
non-experts, why shouldn't someone who is only going to use a subset, 
have an opinion on a troublesome part of the language?

>>> One of Guido's principles in designing Python was to keep it simple,

For a simple language, there appear to be quite a few esoteric uses 
being thought up for that feature!

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Bartc
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