Closures in leu of pointers?

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Sat, 29 Jun 2013 14:42:58 -0500, Tim Chase wrote:

> On 2013-06-29 19:19, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> Nobody ever asks why Python doesn't let you sort an int, or take the
>> square of a list...
> 
> just to be ornery, you can sort an int:
> 
>>>> i = 314159265
>>>> ''.join(sorted(str(i)))
> '112345569'
> 
> And I suppose, depending on how you define it, you can square a list:


Yeah, but my point is that nobody ever *asks* how to do it, because they 
don't confuse the two concepts. Those who have some need for sorting the 
digits of an int-as-string work out how to solve the problem without 
asking.

And you'll note I didn't say that nobody confuses an int and a string. 
That was no accident :-)


-- 
Steven