On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 15:40:36 -0800, Chris Rebert wrote: > On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Steven D'Aprano > <st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au> wrote: >> On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 04:28:41 -0800, Ed Keith wrote: >>> In most functional languages you just name a function to access it and >>> you do it ALL the time. >>> >>> for example, in if you have a function 'f' which takes two parameters >>> to call the function and get the result you use: >>> >>> f 2 3 >>> >>> If you want the function itself you use: >>> >>> f >> >> How do you call a function of no arguments? > > It's not really a function in that case, it's just a named constant. > (Recall that functions don't/can't have side-effects.)
>>> time.time(), random.random() (1264983502.7505889, 0.29974255140479633) >>> time.time(), random.random() (1264983505.9283719, 0.74207867411026329) They don't look terribly constant to me. There is a difference between a function that does "give me whatever value is specified by a fixed description" and a function that does "give me a fixed value". -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
