[Python-Dev] PEP 289 - Generator Expressions - Let's Move For ward

Andrew Koenig ark-mlist at att.net
Tue May 4 10:31:38 EDT 2004


> There may be a general rule that functions that make use of free
> variables are best programmed in a functional style, where the function
> doesn't depend on side-effects to those variables.

The troublesome cases tend to be ones where the function depends on *the
lack* of side effects to free variables.





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