Ben Finney napisał(a): >> I'd be interested in hearing people's stories of Eureka moments in >> Python, moments where you suddenly realise that some task which >> seemed like it would be hard work was easy with Python. > > I don't recall the exact context, but Python was the language that > introduced me to the power of a unified type system. > > The application I was writing was doing a whole lot of bookkeeping of > information about what kind of data was being processed, which had to > be kept updated in parallel with the data itself. Once I realised that > "unified type system" and "first-class objects" meant that I could > simply store the *type itself* as data, whether a basic type or one of > my own, things became astoundingly easier. Soon after that I learned > that functions are also objects, and I was hooked.
This was exactly the same "eureka" in my case too -- functions are objects. I can store in a tuple the function and its arguments, then the only thing I have to do is to call first element with the rest of elements as arguments. This code now scares people in my former job -- being Java and C++ heads they just cann't get it... ;) -- Jarek Zgoda "We read Knuth so you don't have to." -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
