Python from Wise Guy's Viewpoint

[Joachim Durchholz]

prunesquallor at comcast.net wrote:
> 
> And most people seem to think that my `black hole' `syntactic
> construct', which does not type check under OCaml without the flag,
> but *does* under OCaml with the flag, can be unambiguously called a
> `program'.

I'm still hoping for an explanation on the practical relevance of that 
black hole device.
I don't insist that the black hole function as given does anything 
useful; if the black-hole function was just a condensed example of a 
general usage pattern, I'd like to know what that pattern is. It would 
help me to find out where in the expressivity spectrum the various 
languages lie.

Regards,
Jo