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Re:Advice on learning Python efficiently by majewsky on Thursday December 15, 2016 @09:24AM (#13184697)
> Great thing about language specs is that is very precise, without mistakes.

I'd also add "concise" to the list of required traits for a good language spec. If you don't believe me that's important, go check out the C++ specification. IIRC it contains some 50 pages of rules on how to choose implementations of an overloaded function.

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Re:Advice on learning Python efficiently by joatmon-snoo on Thursday December 15, 2016 @10:39AM (#13185277)
And if you're looking at modern C++, you also get to learn about lvalues, glvalues, xvalues, rvalues, and prvalues!
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Re:Advice on learning Python efficiently by webmaven on Thursday December 15, 2016 @11:02AM (#13185480)
prvalues are the ones that return a promise about a system's future state which are commonly expected to prove false, right?
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Re:Advice on learning Python efficiently by hardwaresofton on Friday December 16, 2016 @01:08AM (#13191416)
Was this not a direct (possibly knee-jerk) reaction to the ease with which you could shoot yourself in the foot, and undefined behavior C allows?
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