Comparing the Same Project in Rust, Haskell, C++, Python, Scala and OCaml

Re:Comparing the Same Project in Rust, Haskell, C++, Python,... by dragonwriter on Saturday June 15, 2019 @11:55PM (#20193764)

I don't see how that example is relevant, because:

(1) It shows Python expresses the concept fairly compactly in the core language without even resorting to stdlib,

(2) It ignores an option (also in the core language) using a ternary and the truthiness of lists: my_list[0] if my_list else None

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Re:Comparing the Same Project in Rust, Haskell, C++, Python,... by tanin on Sunday June 16, 2019 @12:28AM (#20193839)

While what you say is true, my small example shows that the code is longer in Python for solving the same problem, i.e. `my_list[0] if my_list else None` is longer than `my_list.headOption` or `my_list.first`.

And we are talking about the brevity of a language here.

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