callable values (was: Introducing the "for" loop)

[Steve D'Aprano]

On Sat, 7 Oct 2017 03:25 am, Stefan Ram wrote:

>   FWIW, in my course notes, I have coined a special word for
>   this:
> 
>   A /prelate/ (German: "Prälat") is a callable value (object).


In English, prelate is a kind of priest, a senior clergyman and dignitary.

I don't know whether German makes a practice of taking arbitrary verbs and
adjectives and turning them into nouns, but English does, and so a callable
object is just called a "callable".



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Steve
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