Who's minister of propaganda this week?

Paul Prescod paulp at ActiveState.com
Wed Mar 14 09:49:34 EST 2001


Phlip wrote:
> 
> ...
> 
> B> The full depth of behaviors we should expect from a typeless language
> have yet to be fathomed. Ruby trumps Python in the simple matter of
> closures (imagine my shock when I discovered Python didn't have them). But
> a language "like" those might win the decade.

I don't know if you are serious (I mean closures are NOT that
important!) but anyhow, Python 2.1 has nested scopes and I think that
functions defined in those scopes are closures just like in any other
language.

-- 
Python:
    Programming the way
    Guido
    indented it.
       - (originated with Skip Montanaro?)




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