morning in Python

George Sakkis george.sakkis at gmail.com
Fri May 16 12:30:49 EDT 2008


On May 16, 11:58 am, "inhahe" <inh... at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm not an expert in this but what does it mean to emphasize state?  It
> seems the opposite of that would be a) functional programming, and b)
> passing parameters instead of using global or relatively local variables.
> And maybe c) coroutines (generators as implemented in Python), although
> perhaps coroutines could be said to emphasize state inasmuch as they go out
> of their way to capture, objectify and reuse it (Stackless' microthreads,
> even moreso).  And Python seems to be well-noted for implementing some
> functional programming methodology, and as for passing parameters it's just
> as object-oriented as the rest of them.
>
> But as I said, I'm not an expert, so let me know if I've gone astray..
>
> > I have a proposition to ask you all: Python emphasizes state.  Is it
> > true?

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