Am 29.03.16 um 08:21 schrieb Rustom Mody:
Dijkstra liked to point out that CS was backward in America compared to Europe
because in Europe they used 'store' but Americans used anthropomorphism like
memory
Now given that store can mean -- among other things --
- room where I dump stuff
- shop wh
Rustom Mody :
> And my mum made the strange remark: "You guys use all the words that I
> know. And you make them into sentences that have no meaning at all."
That's what I think when I hear Estonian spoken.
> My own finding is that repurposing old words to new concepts causes
> more confusion an
On Tuesday, March 29, 2016 at 8:16:12 AM UTC+5:30, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
> Steven D'Aprano writes:
>
> > On Mon, 28 Mar 2016 06:51 pm, Jussi Piitulainen wrote:
> >
> >> Ben Bacarisse writes:
> >>
> >>> It's shame that anonymous functions (for that's what's being returned
> >>> here -- a function w
On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 3:45 PM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> Chris Angelico :
>
>> On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 12:40 AM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
>>> Dan Sommers :
>>>
On Mon, 28 Mar 2016 11:58:54 +0300, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> As for Python, I don't feel a great need for anonymous functions.
Steven D'Aprano :
> On Tue, 29 Mar 2016 08:40 am, Chris Angelico wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 12:40 AM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
>>> Dan Sommers :
>>>
On Mon, 28 Mar 2016 11:58:54 +0300, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> As for Python, I don't feel a great need for anonymous functions.
> H
Chris Angelico :
> On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 12:40 AM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
>> Dan Sommers :
>>
>>> On Mon, 28 Mar 2016 11:58:54 +0300, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
>>>
As for Python, I don't feel a great need for anonymous functions.
However, I keep running into a need for anonymous classes, o
On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 1:45 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
> If functions were defined
>
> fun f(x): return x * x
>
> then an anonymous function could be written as a function definition but
> the name
>
> fun (x): return x * x
>
> I suppose you could do that even with "def" but it's a bit less
> m
Steven D'Aprano writes:
> On Mon, 28 Mar 2016 06:51 pm, Jussi Piitulainen wrote:
>
>> Ben Bacarisse writes:
>>
>>> It's shame that anonymous functions (for that's what's being returned
>>> here -- a function with no name) were born of a subject that used
>>> arbitrary Greek letters for things.
On Tuesday, March 29, 2016 at 5:11:02 AM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Mar 2016 06:51 pm, Jussi Piitulainen wrote:
>
> > Ben Bacarisse writes:
> >
> >> It's shame that anonymous functions (for that's what's being returned
> >> here -- a function with no name) were born of a subjec
On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 10:50 AM, Random832 wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 28, 2016, at 19:40, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> Not to mention "Monad". I don't think *anyone* knows what a Monad is ;-)
>
> A monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors; what's the
> problem?
>
> Well, someone had to say i
On Mon, Mar 28, 2016, at 19:40, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Not to mention "Monad". I don't think *anyone* knows what a Monad is ;-)
A monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors; what's the
problem?
Well, someone had to say it.
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On Mon, 28 Mar 2016 06:51 pm, Jussi Piitulainen wrote:
> Ben Bacarisse writes:
>
>> It's shame that anonymous functions (for that's what's being returned
>> here -- a function with no name) were born of a subject that used
>> arbitrary Greek letters for things. We seem stuck with the mysterious
On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 9:52 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> That would be called "type" :-)
>
> type(name, bases, namespace) returns a new class:
>
>
> py> C = type("MyClass", (object,), {'foo': 1})
> py> C
>
> py> C.foo
> 1
Yeah, but to do that in a single expression, you need to have all the
fun
On Tue, 29 Mar 2016 08:40 am, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 12:40 AM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
>> Dan Sommers :
>>
>>> On Mon, 28 Mar 2016 11:58:54 +0300, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
>>>
As for Python, I don't feel a great need for anonymous functions.
However, I keep running i
On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 12:40 AM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> Dan Sommers :
>
>> On Mon, 28 Mar 2016 11:58:54 +0300, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
>>
>>> As for Python, I don't feel a great need for anonymous functions.
>>> However, I keep running into a need for anonymous classes, or,
>>> rather, classless o
Dan Sommers :
> On Mon, 28 Mar 2016 11:58:54 +0300, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
>
>> As for Python, I don't feel a great need for anonymous functions.
>> However, I keep running into a need for anonymous classes, or,
>> rather, classless objects. Not a biggie. I just create a one-off
>> inner class and
On Mon, 28 Mar 2016 11:58:54 +0300, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> As for Python, I don't feel a great need for anonymous functions.
> However, I keep running into a need for anonymous classes, or, rather,
> classless objects. Not a biggie. I just create a one-off inner class
> and instantiate it, but I
Jussi Piitulainen :
> Ben Bacarisse writes:
>> It's shame that anonymous functions (for that's what's being returned
>> here -- a function with no name) were born of a subject that used
>> arbitrary Greek letters for things. We seem stuck with the mysterious
>> but meaningless "lambda" for a very
Ben Bacarisse writes:
> It's shame that anonymous functions (for that's what's being returned
> here -- a function with no name) were born of a subject that used
> arbitrary Greek letters for things. We seem stuck with the mysterious
> but meaningless "lambda" for a very simple and useful idea.
Richard Riehle writes:
> Several months ago, I posted a question regarding how to create a list
> of functions.
> I realize that this seems trivial to many experience Pythonistas. But
> it might prove useful for those who are relative newcomers to the
> language. In any case, I hope someone ca
Hi Richard,
On 27/03/16 20:38, Richard Riehle wrote:
I realize that this seems trivial to many experience Pythonistas. But it might
prove useful for those who are relative newcomers
Thanks for sharing your solution (people finding the original question
because it happens to match their own
Tim,
Greatly appreciate your help. You are right - the functions work
from the list; i don't actually need the string with events.
Thanks again - great list and great people...
Val
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Hi Kent,
Thanks. Great help. It does work now,
and with expressions as well.
my very best,
Val
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John Machin wrote:
> On 27/04/2006 10:38 AM, val bykoski wrote:
> > Hi The List:
> > I have a modeling app where i'm detecting events (in temporal
> > dynamics) applying a set of (boolean) functions - kind of:
> >
> > event_list = "f1 f2 etc".split() # each fi detects a specific event
> > i have
val bykoski wrote:
> Hi The List:
>I have a modeling app where i'm detecting events (in temporal
> dynamics) applying a set of (boolean) functions - kind of:
>
> event_list = "f1 f2 etc".split() # each fi detects a specific event
> i have defs for functions fi, or simple boolean expressions
On 27/04/2006 10:38 AM, val bykoski wrote:
> Hi The List:
> I have a modeling app where i'm detecting events (in temporal
> dynamics) applying a set of (boolean) functions - kind of:
>
> event_list = "f1 f2 etc".split() # each fi detects a specific event
> i have defs for functions fi, or simp
val bykoski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Hi The List:
> I have a modeling app where i'm detecting events (in temporal
>dynamics) applying a set of (boolean) functions - kind of:
>
>event_list = "f1 f2 etc".split() # each fi detects a specific event
>i have defs for functions fi, or simple bool
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