from future import pass_function

Ross Ridge rridge at csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Wed Jul 25 23:30:12 EDT 2012


Steven D'Aprano  <steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:
>What's the point of this?
 
Ross Ridge wrote:
> Remember everything you've said about why its a good thing the that
> print statement is now a function?  That.

Steven D'Aprano  <steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:
>I can't believe I actually have to point this out explicitly, but pass is 
>not print. Apart from them both starting with the letter "P", they are 
>nothing alike. There are good reasons for making print a function, and 
>they don't apply to pass because pass doesn't do what print does.

No, they're very much alike.  That's why all your arguments for print
as function also apply just as well to pass a function.  Your arguments
had very little to do what what print actually did.

					Ross Ridge

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