On 05/08/2015 02:42 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 4:36 PM, Rustom Mody <rustompm...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Friday, May 8, 2015 at 10:39:38 AM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote:
Why have the concept of a procedure?
On Friday, Chris Angelico ALSO wrote:
With print(), you have a conceptual procedure...
So which do you want to stand by?
A procedure, in Python, is simply a function which returns None.
That's all. It's not any sort of special concept. It doesn't need to
be taught. If your students are getting confused by it, stop teaching
it!
One thing newbies get tripped up by is having some path through their
code that doesn't explicitly return. And in Python that path therefore
returns None. It's most commonly confusing when there are nested ifs,
and one of the "inner ifs" doesn't have an else clause.
Anyway, it's marginally more useful to that newbie if the compiler would
produce an error instead of later seeing a runtime error due to an
unexpected None result.
I don't think Python would be improved by detecting such a condition and
reporting on it. That's a job for a linter, or a style guide program.
No different than the compile time checks for variable type that most
languages impose. They don't belong in Python.
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