functional programming

[François Pinard]

Moshe Zadka <moshez at math.huji.ac.il> writes:

> At a guess, nobody does anything seriously functional with Python.
> Lack of lexical scoping and the weakness of lambdas discourage it.
> Whoever wrote this article must have seen "lambda" and concluded Python
> has a strong functional basis.

So far that I understand functional programming, I would not hesitate
using Python.  My guess is that I would have no problem naming my lambda's
(using `def'), and approximating lexical closures (using `class').

Maybe we should not get distracted that much by syntactical sugar! :-)

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François Pinard   http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard