Re: OT: This Swift thing

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Date	2014-06-04 07:01 +1000
Subject	Re: OT: This Swift thing
From	Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Message-ID	<mailman.10644.1401829302.18130.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 6:43 AM, Sturla Molden <sturla.molden@gmail.com> wrote:
> A Python with static typing would have been far better, IMHO. It seems they
> have created a Python-JavaScript bastard with random mix of features.
> Unfortunately they retained the curly brackets from JS...

More important than the syntax is the semantics. Have they kept the
embarrassment of UTF-16 strings? I skimmed the docs, and I *think*
they've made it support Unicode. No idea how performance and memory
usage are, but once you have the semantics right, you can worry about
performance later.

ChrisA

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Re: OT: This Swift thing Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-06-04 07:01 +1000

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