Python from Wise Guy's Viewpoint
Fergus Henderson
fjh at cs.mu.oz.au
Mon Oct 27 13:10:29 EST 2003
gt5163b at prism.gatech.edu (Brian McNamara!) writes:
>prunesquallor at comcast.net once said:
>>(defun black-hole (x)
>> #'black-hole)
>>
>>(for non lispers, the funny #' is a namespace operator.
>> The black-hole function gobbles an argument and returns
>> the black-hole function.)
>
>Finally, an example that I don't think you can type in Haskell.
>You score a point for that. :)
I don't think it deserves any points, because as another poster said,
in Haskell that is equivalent to
black_hole _ = undefined
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