[Edu-sig] Kirby Urner's Sieve of Eratosthenes

[Ka-Ping Yee]

On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, Kirby Urner wrote:
> This I like quite a bit!  Good job.

Thanks.

> Ka-Ping, if you have no objection, maybe I'll swap in the
> above on http://www.inetarena.com/~pdx4d/ocn/numeracy2.html ?

Sure, feel free to use whatever you like.

> Note: also change var name to final in the lamda, as 
> sieve=sieve looks more cryptic IMO.

Perhaps it's just a matter of personal taste, but i actually
tend to prefer using the same variable name both inside and
outside a lambda in this situation.  It's more consistent,
and the idiom "spam=spam" is a tip that you're passing local
variables to an inner scope.

This way, you can almost create the illusion that Python has
a form of lexical scoping that requires declaring what names
should be visible in the inner scope, and that the syntax for
such a declaration is ", spam=spam".

It's a lie, but a helpful lie. :)


-- ?!ng