<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/10/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Sylvain Hellegouarch</b> <<a href="mailto:sh@defuze.org">sh@defuze.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0;margin-left:0.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<br>Not to worry :)<br>However the question stands, will Python support closures (or does it<br>already via lambda expressions?)</blockquote><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="1">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif">Depends on your interpretation of what a closure is. One interpretation is that w</font></span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(20, 20, 20); font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; ">
<font class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif">ith closures you can, for example, have a series of lambda expressions, evaluate up to a certain point, add a marker, store it, and then continue where you left off at a later date.
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</div><div>As per our conversation in IM, this would certainly be one way to move towards a stackless and thread-free Python diet. ;-)</div></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>Also, since we're on the subject, one *true test* of Python language interoperability would be to get Kamaelia (
<a href="http://kamaelia.org">http://kamaelia.org</a> ) to work properly via IronPython.<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Kamaelia list (Cc'd): Has anyone attempted to get Kamaelia working with IronPython? If I am understanding things correctly, until support for generators are implemented then this would not be possible. Is this understanding correct?
</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>To the IronPython team: Having the ability to run Kamaelia (a brainchild of Michael Sparks of BBC Research) via IronPython would be an absolute dream come true. *AMAZING* potential existing bridging together Kamaelia and .NET, in my own opinion.
<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>/M:D<br><br>M. David Peterson<br><a href="http://mdavid.name">http://mdavid.name</a> | <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/2354">http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/2354</a> | <a href="http://dev.aol.com/blog/3155">
http://dev.aol.com/blog/3155</a>
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