khayes@flash.net wrote:

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Take a look at TCL also- buttons take a single line to create... it takes 3x more code in Java. Self is closer to Java in this respect.

Why not clone an existing Button and modify it?

Do you have any data to show that this is quicker?

Yes, I've used GUI's for creating interfaces where I could clone and modify buttons instantly with zero lines of code.

...However the next Olympics the winners adopted his style- due to its aerodynamic advantages..

We'll most programmers use big initializers now, so I think your metaphor would favor the few arguments in initializers technique.

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Lua has a more elegant way of dealing with these than python.

How so?

You can send as many arguments as you like to any method. If that method takes fewer arguments, it puts the rest into a local "args" variable. I prefer this because I don't like how python's optional named arguments complicate the syntax and encourage the use of this feature for data flow/functional programing. Python can also do something similiar to Lua for variable arguments, but it also has it's own syntax, making it less elegant than Lua.

Steve

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