On May 8, 6:48 pm, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <l...@geek- central.gen.new_zealand> wrote: > In message <gu269i$16i...@adenine.netfront.net>, namekuseijin wrote: > > > Carl Banks escreveu: > > >> 2. However, functional programming is cryptic at some level no matter > >> how nice you make the syntax. > > > When your program is nothing but function definition and function > > application, syntax is meaningless. > > On the contrary, syntax is vital to the correct interpretation of functional > constructs. See, for example, > <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2008-October/683816.html>.
Yeah, it's important in an imperative language to have predefined syntax to allow you to do things. Point taken. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list