Comment on Anon is a linguist

rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• alias_qr_rainmaker@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  list comprehensions aren’t changed much. but a statement like dog = Dog(name=“fido”) is transpiled to the dog is now a Dog with name ‘fido’

  the language uses backticks for strings. it handles nested stringly nicely because of it

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• lemmyman@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Can I just say that as someone who only codes tangentially to my work, code and documentation that uses the same word 2 or 3 times in an expression, when they mean different things, is such an immense pet peeve lf mine when learning something new.

  object Object(object);

  Statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged.

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  • rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s just Python’s generator syntax. Not all that difficult to parse once you get a feel for it. Plus syntax highlighting helps.

    [OUTPUT_ITEM for INPUT_ITEM in INPUT_ITERABLE if CONDITION]
    

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  • fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    All the lady in there are the same lady, it’s being used for different things as the other comment answered you but it’s the same box of information, if you will.

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