the deceptive continuous assignments

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Tue Dec 6 17:20:50 EST 2011


On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 9:11 AM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
> Cute. I am used to linked lists being built from the bottem up in functional
> languages with immutable nodes. I might even use something like this. Of
> course, for a list of any length, walk needs to be iterative.
>
>    def walk(self):
>        while self:
>
>            print("My payload is: "+self.payload)
>            self = self.next

Of course, but I was coding top-down and didn't feel like going back
to add the "while" :)

ChrisA



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