Sybren Stuvel wrote: > Fredrik Lundh enlightened us with: > >>>def somefunc(x): return x*5 >>> >>>How is that a multi-line function definition? >> >>but that's namespace pollution! if you do this, nobody will never ever be >>able to use the name somefunc again! won't somebody please think about >>the children! > > > If you use that as an inner function, it only "pollutes" the local > namespace of that function. How's that influencing the rest of the > world? >
I think you need to turn your irony detector up a little - it looks like hte gain is currently way too low :o) regards Steve -- Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC www.holdenweb.com PyCon TX 2006 www.python.org/pycon/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
