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[EnigmaticHat]

Its a good idea because it immediately communicates to you how deep each part of the code is, and because if you give the end brackets their own lines that's one line spent versus the four spaces per line of a python indent, which only wastes space if the line of code would go off the side of the screen.

[MagmaMcFry]

Screen space is less of an issue for me than not being able to jump between matching braces. Also if you use braces, you can run autoformatters over your code that automatically indent everything properly for you (as opposed to Python where the formatter needs to assume that you meant to have that number of indents there). Also multiline lambdas are awesome and fuck Python for not having those.

[Levi]

Also multiline lambdas are awesome and fuck Python for not having those.

Also multiline lambdas are awesome and fuck Python for not having those.

Also multiline lambdas are awesome and fuck Python for not having those.

Quoted 3 time for truth. 

[Angle]

Does anyone know how to make text wrap from line to line inside an SVG element? I found the reference for textArea, but that's not being implemented in firefox.

[Levi]

Does anyone know how to make text wrap from line to line inside an SVG element? I found the reference for textArea, but that's not being implemented in firefox.

Gah, if I was at work I could help.  I think it was something "flow". 


Edit:  Ah here it is:  http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-SVG12-20041027/flow.html

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<flowRoot font-size="16">
    <flowRegion>
      <path d="M100,50L50,300L250,300L300,50z"/>
    </flowRegion>
      <flowPara>Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow; creeps in this
       petty pace from day to day, until the last syllable of recorded time.
       And all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death.
     </flowPara>
  </flow>
You can use a rect instead of a path, that is what I usually do.

[Telgin]

Also multiline lambdas are awesome and fuck Python for not having those.

Quoted 3 time for truth. 

And again.  I was pretty disappointed to learn that Python didn't have support for it.

Inline function definitions like that are one of my favorite features of JavaScript (alongside object literals), and I miss them sorely whenever I use a scripting language that doesn't support them.  PHP relatively recently added the ability to define functions this way I think, but still lacks object literals.  (object)array() syntax works but is annoying.

Python's dictionaries are almost as convenient as object literals, but having to use the [] operator to access their components is distracting compared to just using them as objects.  I suppose there are benefits to making it clear that you're working with a dictionary rather than another type of object though.

[Angle]

Ah, thank you. I'll see what I can do with that.

[Orange Wizard]

Oh, you meant indentation. Right.

I don't like curly-bracket languages because curly brackets look weird. When it comes to programming, I'm very superficial.

[Rose]

I had to look up lambdas.

I'm still not sure what they are.

[Putnam]

Say there's a function that takes a function as an argument. Let's use the example of "timer", a function that runs another function after a second.

In lua, you can do this:

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timer(function() print('Hello')
    print('World!)
    end)

In python, it must go like this:

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timer(lambda: print('Hello') print('World!'))
Or something like that. Anyway, I've seen code that used \ to escape line breaks, so...

[Telgin]

Yep, whereas in JavaScript (and I think modern versions of PHP), you can do something like this:

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setTimeout(function() {
    // Do stuff
    // And more stuff
}, 1000);

Which is equivalent to doing this:

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function foo() {
    // Do stuff
    // And more stuff
}
setTimeout(foo, 1000);

Being able to define multiline functions inline as arguments is very handy, especially when you're working with things that require custom callbacks for asynchronous events.

[Parsely]

I never got around to thanking Sergius and Arx for helping me out with SQL, thanks a lot for everything you guys.

[Orange Wizard]

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print ("Ohai!",
       len ("""I am a Python
multiline lambda thingy""") * 3,
       "even though I don't know what any of it is",
       [print ("you guys seem pretty worked up about it",
               i) for i in range (11)])


[Mephisto]

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print ("Ohai!",
       len ("""I am a Python
multiline lambda thingy""") * 3,
       "even though I don't know what any of it is",
       [print ("you guys seem pretty worked up about it",
               i) for i in range (11)])


Syntax error.

Also, not a lambda.

[Rose]

Thanks for the effort, guys.

Still makes no sense at all to me.