function prototyping?

[Burton Samograd]

bruno at modulix <onurb at xiludom.gro> writes:

> Burton Samograd wrote:
> > "infidel" <saint.infidel at gmail.com> writes:
> > I'm a C programmer, so I'm doing it in a bit of a C like way;
> > prototype the function, initalize the array using the prototypes, have
> > the functions defined somewhere else and then let the linker work it
> > all out for me.  I was hoping that python had some sort of lazy
> > evaluation scheme for this type of behaviour so that you could defer
> > linkage (or variable evalutation) until runtime, or at least variable
> > reference (through the use of thunks or some sort).  Maybe I was
> > hoping for too much :)
> 
> It's not a problem of "hoping for too much", but a problem of paradigm
> shift. You're actually *thinking* in C, and Python is a *completely
> different* language. You just can't directly transpose C idioms in
> Python - nor could you transpose much Python idioms in C. So you need to
> 'go down a level' and consider the real problem and how to solve it the
> Python way - not how to implement the C-ish solution in Python.

To be honest, I'm trying to do it in a more 'lispish' way (as in emacs
lisp) where the configuration file is written in the implementation
langugage.  Just an interesting experiement really to see if it would
work.  It's been a year and a half since I really used python last so
I'm just getting back up to speed with the idioms so I expect to make
a few mistakes along the way.

Thanks for the help.

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