"Carl Banks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Feb 27, 12:44 am, "bambam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> In retrospect, the project has three parts: remove >> side effects, push side effects to a common location, modify code so that >> changes only affect areas that encapsulate side effects. This code >> allows >> top level code to pretend that the intermediate code has not changed. > > Gah. > > Libraries that "helpfully" do things on behalf of the user strike > again, and the mess bambam posted is what you have to do to disable > these "helpful" effects. > > I'll grant that it's possible that the library wasn't trying to be > helpful and was just indicriminately letting side effects loose. > > Shame on the writer in any case. > > > Carl Banks
(smile). The hardware has been implemented in a conversational style: you ask a question, something happens, you get a response. It's only when you try the conversational style in a lecture theatre that you realise the constraints. Steve -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
