Why not allow empty code blocks?

Antoon Pardon antoon.pardon at rece.vub.ac.be
Tue Aug 2 06:30:23 EDT 2016


Op 30-07-16 om 18:15 schreef Rustom Mody:
>
> The more general baby that is significant is that beginners should have
> it easy to distinguish procedure and function and python does not naturally aid that.  print was something procedure-ish in python2 but the general notion being
> absent is a much more significant problem (for beginners) than print.
>
> ...
>
> Ok Python is better than Java is better than C++
> But it cannot stand up to scheme as a teaching language
> [The MIT Profs who replaced scheme by python admit to as much viz.

But AFAIK scheme doesn't aid in distinguishing procedure from function either.

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Antoon. 




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