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Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 20:56:25 +1100
Subject: Re: Brython - Python in the browser
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On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 8:37 PM, Pierre Quentel
<pierre.quentel@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm afraid I am going to disagree. The document is a tree structure, and =
today Python doesn't have a syntax for easily manipulating trees. To add a =
child to a node, using an operator instead of a function call saves a lot o=
f typing ; <=3D looks like a left arrow, which is a visual indication of th=
e meaning "receive as child". |=3D doesn't have this arrow shape

This is the reasoning that gave us the C++ stdio system, where:

cout << "Hello, world!\n";

is the way to make console output. Quite frankly, I don't like it;
when I write C++ code, I use printf same as in C. I'd much rather work
with methods than with operators that try to look like the flowing of
data, but actually have a quite different meaning.

ChrisA