In article <7xvdavd4bq....@ruckus.brouhaha.com>, Paul Rubin <no.em...@nospam.invalid> wrote: > >If your goal is to engage in functional programming, you're better off >using a language designed for that purpose. Python is a pragmatic >language from an imperative tradition, that has some functional features >tacked on.
While your first sentence is spot-on, saying that functional features are "tacked on" understates the case. Consider how frequently people reach for list comps and gen exps. Function dispatch through dicts is the standard replacement for a switch statement. Lambda callbacks are common. Etc, etc, etc -- Aahz (a...@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n nx prgrmmng. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
