[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) writes: > if anonymous functions are available, they're used in even more > cases where naming would help
Yes, you're right. But don't stop here. What about expressions? Many people write very complex expression, that are hard to understand. A good language should forbid these abuse and don't allow expressions with more than 2 or maybe 3 operators! Forbid everything that might be abused and you have a perfect language? I like Python and I teach Python, I'm also used to Java and C#. But one of the best solutions to problems of beginners and not so brilliant programmers is something like the Dr. Scheme enviroment: Choose your language level yourself. Everyting (allowed constructs, error messages,...) will be adjusted to your choosen level. And experts have all at their fingertips they want and need. Code isn't blowed up and screwed with workaround for language limitations (that are aimed at beginners and less capable programmers). Why only adjust to the less capable people? Give everyone what they need and want! :) -- Stefan. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
