On Feb 20, 1:30 am, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <l...@geek- central.gen.new_zealand> wrote: > In message <op.u8at0suda8n...@gnudebst>, Rhodri James wrote: > > > In classic Pascal, a procedure was distinct from a function in that it had > > no return value. The concept doesn't really apply in Python; there are no > > procedures in that sense, since if a function terminates without supplying > > an explicit return value it returns None. > > If Python doesn’t distinguish between procedures and functions, why should > it distinguish between statements and expressions?
Because the latter are different in Python (and in Ruby, and in most modern languages), while the former aren't distinguished in Python or Ruby or most modern languages? Primarily functional languages are the main exception, but other than them it's pretty uncommon to find any modern language that does distinguish procedures and functions, or one that doesn't distinguished statements and expressions. You can certainly find exceptions, but distinguishing statements and expressions is absolutely commonplace in modern languages, and distinguishing functions and procedures is in the minority. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
