Python handles globals badly.
alister
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Thu Sep 10 15:56:33 EDT 2015
On Fri, 11 Sep 2015 01:59:27 +1000, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>
> Although, I'm not sure that I agree with the idea that "everything is an
> expression". I think that's a category mistake, like asking for the
> speed of dark[1], or for a bucket of cold. Some things are functional by
> nature, and other things are imperative; some may be both, but I don't
> think that assignment is one. I think that assignment is imperative, not
> functional, and forcing it to return a value is artificial.
>
>
> [1] Obviously it's faster than light, since wherever the light arrives,
> it finds the dark got there first.
Incorrect light is simply the absence of dark
https://astro.uni-bonn.de/~dfischer/dark_sucker_2.html
http://tristan.ethereal.net/humor/dark-suckers.html
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Neutrinos have bad breadth.
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