On Thursday 29 September 2016 16:13, Gregory Ewing wrote: > Philosophical question: Is a function that never > returns actually a function?
Mathematically, all functions return, instantly. Or rather, mathematics occurs in an abstract environment where there is no time. Everything happens simultaneously. So even infinite sums or products can be calculated instantly -- if they converge. So, yes, even functions that never return are functions. You just need to collapse all of infinite time into a single instant. -- Steven git gets easier once you get the basic idea that branches are homeomorphic endofunctors mapping submanifolds of a Hilbert space. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
