Mathias Panzenboeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I currently visit a course about functional programming at the > university of technology vienna: python implements only a small > subset of things needed to be called a functional language (list > comprehension). but yes, for a imperativ oop language python is > very close to functional.
List comprehensions are just fairly trivial syntax sugar. The essence of functional programming is being able to construct new functions on the fly, and Python does that. See Hughes' paper "Why functional programming matters" and imagine doing the examples in Python vs. doing them in Java. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
