A friendlier, sugarier lambda -- a proposal for Ruby-like blocks in python

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

Paul Boddie wrote:
> Kay Schluehr wrote:
>> Spreading tiny function definitions all over the code
>> may be finally not such a good idea compared with a few generic methods
>> that get just called? OO might run out of fashion these days but Python
>> is not Java and Pythons OO is pretty lightweight.
> 
> I think you've successfully identified a recent trend in Python
> development: the abandonment of fairly transparent object-oriented
> techniques in favour of more opaque but supposedly more convenient
> hybrid techniques. 

Just for the record : Ruby's code-blocks (closures, really) come from
Smalltalk, which is still the OneTrueObjectLanguage(tm).


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bruno desthuilliers
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