On Thursday, March 27, 2014 4:15:19 AM UTC+5:30, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> Chris Angelico :
> > You prove here that Python has first-class expressions in the same way
> > that 80x86 assembly language has garbage collection. Sure, you can
> > implement it using the primitives you have, but that's not
On Wed, 26 Mar 2014 20:44:17 -0400, Terry Reedy wrote:
> I agree that we have not been understanding each other.
>
> From you original post that I responded to:
>> The thing is, we can't just create a ∑ function, because it doesn't
>> work the way the summation operator works. The proble
On Thursday, March 27, 2014 5:13:21 AM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Mar 2014 09:24:49 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:
> > wrote:
> >> Now actual python
> >> def sumjensen(i_get, i_set,lower,upper,exp):
> >> tot = 0
> >> i_set(lower)
> >> while i_get() <= upper:
> >>
I agree that we have not been understanding each other.
From you original post that I responded to:
The thing is, we can't just create a ∑ function, because it doesn't
work the way the summation operator works. The problem is that we
would want syntactic support, so we could write something like
On Thu, 27 Mar 2014 09:24:49 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 4:32 AM, Rustom Mody
> wrote:
>> Now actual python
>>
>> def sumjensen(i_get, i_set,lower,upper,exp):
>> tot = 0
>> i_set(lower)
>> while i_get() <= upper:
>> tot += exp_get()
>> i_set(
Chris Angelico :
> You prove here that Python has first-class expressions in the same way
> that 80x86 assembly language has garbage collection. Sure, you can
> implement it using the primitives you have, but that's not support.
I was more reminded of STL and Boost. For example:
std::for_each
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 4:32 AM, Rustom Mody wrote:
> Now actual python
>
> def sumjensen(i_get, i_set,lower,upper,exp):
> tot = 0
> i_set(lower)
> while i_get() <= upper:
> tot += exp_get()
> i_set(i_get() + 1)
> return tot
>
>
> i=0
> a=[3,4,5]
> i_get = lambda :
On Wednesday, March 26, 2014 11:02:04 PM UTC+5:30, Rustom Mody wrote:
> On Wednesday, March 26, 2014 9:35:53 PM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> > On Wed, 26 Mar 2014 00:30:21 -0400, Terry Reedy wrote:
> > > One passes an unquoted expression in code by quoting it with either
> > > lambda, paired
On Wednesday, March 26, 2014 9:35:53 PM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Mar 2014 00:30:21 -0400, Terry Reedy wrote:
> > On 3/25/2014 8:12 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> >> On Tue, 25 Mar 2014 19:55:39 -0400, Terry Reedy wrote:
> >>> On 3/25/2014 11:18 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>
On Wed, 26 Mar 2014 00:30:21 -0400, Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 3/25/2014 8:12 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> On Tue, 25 Mar 2014 19:55:39 -0400, Terry Reedy wrote:
>>
>>> On 3/25/2014 11:18 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>>>
The thing is, we can't just create a ∑ function, because it doesn't
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