Josiah Carlson wrote: > Mark Carter wrote: >> Not that I'm particularly knowledgeable about language design issues, >> but maybe closures and slightly different scoping rules would be nice. > > Python has had closures for years.
I just looked up http://www.secnetix.de/~olli/Python/lambda_functions.hawk and was amazed to discover that you were right. Nice one. > What kind of scoping did you desire? Well, I had in mind so that if you defined a function, but wanted to access a global var, that you didn't have to use the global keyword. Not much of a biggie, I guess. > Refuse the temptation to guess. As many people want to keep the > newlines as not (it disambiguates the case of end of file and blank > line), and it is a simple thing to deal with: line.rstrip('\r\n') . I guess that about wraps it up, then. Python pretty much has it all. Except for macros - which is not necessarily a dealbreaker, anyway. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
