map/filter/reduce/lambda opinions and background unscientific mini-survey

[Dan Sommers]

On Wed, 06 Jul 2005 14:33:47 GMT,
Ron Adam <rrr at ronadam.com> wrote:

> Since this is a Python 3k item...  What would be the consequence of
> making None the default value of an undefined name?  And then assigning
> a name to None as a way to delete it?

[ ... ]

> Any drawbacks?

Lots more hard-to-find errors from code like this:

    filehandle = open( 'somefile' )
    do_something_with_an_open_file( file_handle )
    filehandle.close( )

Regards,
Dan

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Dan Sommers
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