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Can you elaborate on what python limitations really frustrate you?

• deleted 16y ago
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• bad_user 16y ago
  My opinion very subjective ... I'm looking for 2 things out of a programming language ... 1) (proper) anonymous code blocks ... it's the only sane way to have declarative APIs, although I've found for some tasks that Python's features (like decorators, meta-classes) are enough ... but not for all things I want to do 2) a limited form of macro support ... like, I want to get the syntax-tree out of a closure, instead of a reference to the compiled method ... to abstract the way some processing takes place. In Python you can workaround it with some magic (a la Django's ORM), but I love to be able to write Python syntax for those queries (e.g. something like Linq) ... and have for example a unified querying interface for collections of data
  • eru 16y ago
    > 1) (proper) anonymous code blocks ... it's the only sane way to have declarative APIs, although I've found for some tasks that Python's features (like decorators, meta-classes) are enough ... but not for all things I want to do [.] Is the anonymous bit necessary? Or asking another way: What about throw-away names? I find that even in Haskell I rarely use lambdas, but tend to name nearly all of my functions.