On 2004-12-18, Terry Reedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Dima Dorfman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Both languages compile all three functions (f and the two versions of >> g) once and choose which g to return at run-time. > > *If* OCaml or any other 'other' language compiles the two versions of g to > the final and complete functions that get returned (but I don't know if > that is so for OCaml or and other appropriate 'other'), then it does > something different from and less flexible than Python.
Sorry, I glossed over the details to convey the general idea. In OCaml, as in Python, the code is compiled once but the closure is made at run-time. # f 3 == f 3;; - : bool = false where "==" is the physical equality operator like Python's "is". -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
