why cannot assign to function call

Grant Edwards grante at visi.com
Sat Jan 3 12:38:46 EST 2009


On 2009-01-03, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <bj_666 at gmx.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 02 Jan 2009 04:39:15 -0600, Derek Martin wrote:
>
>> What the Python community often overlooks, when this discussion again
>> rears its ugly head (as it seems to every other hour or so), is that its
>> assignment model is BIZARRE, as in it's conceptually different from
>> virtually all other languages substantially taught in undergraduate
>> computer science programs.
>
> What's the difference between Python and Java or C# here!?

Or scheme, or lisp, or smalltalk, or ....

> Or are they also "BIZARRE"!?

One presumes that Mr. Martin finds anything different from his
first computer language to be BIZARRE.  He should try out
Prolog or something genuinely different.

-- 
Grant




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