[erlang-questions] Fwd: Re: More a comment that a question

[Tom Murphy]

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From: "Tom Murphy" <amindfv@REDACTED>
Date: Jun 8, 2012 9:31 PM
Subject: Re: [erlang-questions] More a comment that a question
To: "Adam Rutkowski" <adam.rutkowski@REDACTED>

Python has some basic pattern-matching, eg:

(a, b) = ("foo", "bar")

Tom
On Jun 8, 2012 1:47 PM, "Adam Rutkowski" <adam.rutkowski@REDACTED> wrote:

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> On Jun 8, 2012, at 7:37 PM, Eric Moritz wrote:
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> > Where the danger comes in is mutating object, lists and dicts that other
> threads or functions have references to.  It is possible to have a
> reference to a dict in a module or up the call stack that gets changed in
> an unexpected way and things crash.  Erlang has made me a very paranoid
> Python developer.
>
> I let my Python code crash and I always regret it.
> Not to mention trivial indecisions like 'how should I deal with this
> without pattern matching?'.
>
> Thanks Erlang!
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> > On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Bob Ippolito <bob@REDACTED> wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 9:34 AM, Paul Barry <paul.james.barry@REDACTED>
> wrote:
> >
> > I've been coding/working with Erlang (and Chicago Boss) for a while
> > now, and I've recently had to do some work in Python.  I find myself
> > looking at some code I'm writing that looks like this:
> >
> >   html = html + "some markup"
> >
> > and getting nervous as I know this is a "naughty" that Erlang would
> > not let me away with.   If only there was a "make everything
> > immutable" switch for Python!  ;-)
> >
> > Strictly speaking, there's no mutation at all here, because str in
> Python *are* immutable. What's happening is that the variable html is
> rebound to the result. This is roughly equivalent to something like this in
> Erlang [1]:
> >
> >     HTML1 = <<HTML/binary, "some markup">>.
> >
> > You really wouldn't want to have to write Python in single assignment
> form, especially without tail call optimization. Python IO would benefit
> from something like Erlang's iolist, but for use cases like the above
> people tend to append to a list and then join it with the empty string, or
> use an instance of cStringIO.StringIO.
> >
> > [1] Some versions of CPython do have some hacks that can detect this x
> += s where x is a string with a reference count of 1 and strategically do
> these updates in-place with over-allocation... so it's possible that it's
> not quite as bad as you think it is (amortized).
> >
> > -bob
> >
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