Karl Kofnarson wrote: > > I wanted to have a function which would, depending on > some argument, return other functions all having access to > the same variable. An OO approach would do but why not > try out closures...
I know that everyone will say that Python is a "multi-paradigm" language and that one should feel free to use whatever technique seems appropriate to solve the problem at hand, but it seems to me that there's been an explosion in nested function usage recently, with lots of code snippets showing them off either in the context of a debugging exercise or as a proposed solution to a problem, and yet in many cases their usage seems frivolous in comparison to plain old object-oriented techniques. I'm not pointing the finger at you here, Karl, since you seem to be experimenting with closures, but why are they suddenly so fashionable? Haven't the features supporting them existed in Python for a few versions now? Don't people want to write classes any more? Intrigued, Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
