On Monday, September 19, 2016 at 6:54:31 PM UTC+12, dieter wrote: > Some time ago, we had a (quite heated) discussion here ...
I have noticed that people get very defensive about things they don’t understand. > Often, functions returning functions are more difficult to understand > than "first order" functions (those returning simple values only) -- > at least for people not familiar with higher abstraction levels. Maybe if the alternative meant writing 200 extra lines of code (as in this case), they might feel differently... -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
