[Numpy-discussion] matlab vs. python question

[Robert Kern]

Sturla Molden wrote:
> On 4/25/2007 8:34 PM, Robert Kern wrote:
> 
>> The things that I get annoyed with every time I have to read some Matlab code
>> are the lack of namespaces and first-class function objects.
> 
> Matlab does have first-class function objects. You can get a handle to 
> any function using the @ operator. Matlab has closures as well.

I wish people would use them, then.

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
 that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
 an underlying truth."
  -- Umberto Eco