Terry Reedy enlightened us with: > Are you claiming that including a reference to the more humanly readable > representation of a function (its source code) somehow detracts from the > beauty of the function concept?
Nope. > Or are you claiming that binding a function to a name rather than > some other access reference (like a list slot) somehow detracts from > its conceptual beauty? Nope. > Is so, would you say the same about numbers? Nope. I was under the (apparently very wrong) impression (don't ask my why) that something like the example that Paul Rubin gave wouldn't be possible. Now that I've learned that, I take back what I've said. His code is more beautyful IMO ;-) Sybren -- The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? Frank Zappa -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list