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Python’s Preprocessor
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#52>>> from __future__ import braces File " ", line 1 SyntaxError: not a chance For those interested in how this (hilarious) error text came to be, it's been hardcoded in cpython since 2001! https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/ad3d3f2f3f19833f59f... The author, Jeremy Hylton, is now a Principal Engineer at Google working on AI search quality. It's quite remarkable that in 24 years, a single person's career has gone…
It's always so cool to see this kind of Easter eggs. So sad that they're not as common as they used to be.
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#53Part of me says that python has not gone out of its way to expose preprocessor hooks for good reason, and reasonable adults should stay away from it. The other part wants nothing to do with reasonable adults anyhow. Such fun could be had.
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.
Thank you for connecting 2 sayings of Murakami Haruki :)
1.痛みは避けがたいが、苦しみはオプショナル
Now, I don’t know how representative this book is of Murakami’s novelistic style, but I wonder: Is this low-maintenance, attention-deficit prose part of Murakami’s attraction, especially among the young? Do people enjoy reading him for the same reason they persist in listening to music as blandly familiar as Clapton’s? If Martin Amis is engaged in a “war against cliché” a phrase in danger of becoming a cliché itself then Murakami, on the evidence of this book, is a serial appeaser. How much does his thigh hurt? “Like crazy.” How do we know the weather is nice? Because as he tells us (twice) there’s “not a cloud in the sky.”
self-styled zero-percenter and book reviewer in the above
(Norwegian Wood)
(Roughly, “growth is pain, nongrowth is unfortunate”)
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#54For the first time in a very, very long time I'm running into something that totally blows my mind and sets off lightbulbs like this is...
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#56>>> from __future__ import braces File " ", line 1 SyntaxError: not a chance For those interested in how this (hilarious) error text came to be, it's been hardcoded in cpython since 2001! https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/ad3d3f2f3f19833f59f... The author, Jeremy Hylton, is now a Principal Engineer at Google working on AI search quality. It's quite remarkable that in 24 years, a single person's career has gone…
Innocent times. Perhaps Hylton could join the "vote of no confidence" motion in order to get justice for Tim Peters: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41314393
And just like that, I'm down the drama rabbit hole.
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#57Part of me says that python has not gone out of its way to expose preprocessor hooks for good reason, and reasonable adults should stay away from it. The other part wants nothing to do with reasonable adults anyhow. Such fun could be had.
Python has a whole bit about how it is for "consenting adults" and that's why it lacks public/private visibility modifiers and presumably why it exposes all other manner of metaprogramming magic. If they were worried about "reasonable adults", these other design decisions would be curious. :)
Batteries are included. Nannies are optional.
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#58best use case I've found so far is pyxl, inspired by jsx https://github.com/dropbox/pyxl.
You can write code like
# coding: pyxl
print Hello World!Re: Python’s Preprocessor
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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.
Thank you for connecting 2 sayings of Murakami Haruki :) 1.痛みは避けがたいが、苦しみはオプショナル ( https://archive.ph/Ca9rE ) Now, I don’t know how representative this book is of Murakami’s novelistic style, but I wonder: Is this low-maintenance, attention-deficit prose part of Murakami’s attraction, especially among the young? Do people enjoy reading him for the same reason they persist in listening to music as blandly familiar as C…
Literally: it's difficult to avoid pain, but suffering is optional
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#60> the Python developers have strong opinions
except when it comes to downloading, installing, or running anything Python related. maybe by 2124 we can give users a python app and let them run it without 20 steps. (oh who am i kidding, by then we'll rewrite everything in whatever comes after Rust)