On Friday, June 21, 2013 2:10:49 AM UTC-5, Chris Angelico wrote: > Why should that be? Why is a subroutine not allowed to > retain any state?
I refuse to repeat myself for lazy readers! > You're free to write code in a purely functional style if > you like I don't want to write code in a purely functional style, i find that style too restricting. > all objects must be immutable, That would suck! > all functions must have no side effects and simply return > a value. No thanks! > One of Python's strengths is that it permits many styles > of programming, without shoehorning every programmer and > every task into one model. Yes, and i consider that aspect of Python a virtue. But this "persistence of mutable arguments" is not a virtue, it's an abomination! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
