<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 6:32 AM, Paul Moore <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:p.f.moore@gmail.com" target="_blank">p.f.moore@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
Procedural languages, and Python in particular, simply don't work like<br>
that. Functions have arbitrary numbers of arguments, </blockquote><div><br></div><div>And can return an arbitrary number of values. OK, technically a single tuple of values, but that does complicate the whole simple chaining thing.</div><div><br></div><div>In short -- Python is not a functional language, even though is supports a number of functional idioms.</div><div><br></div><div>-CHB</div><div><br></div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><br>Christopher Barker, Ph.D.<br>Oceanographer<br><br>Emergency Response Division<br>NOAA/NOS/OR&R (206) 526-6959 voice<br>7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax<br>Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception<br><br><a href="mailto:Chris.Barker@noaa.gov" target="_blank">Chris.Barker@noaa.gov</a></div>
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