Is there a way to change the closure of a python function?

Steve D'Aprano steve+python at pearwood.info
Wed Sep 28 07:48:20 EDT 2016


On Wed, 28 Sep 2016 08:03 pm, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:

> On Wednesday, September 28, 2016 at 9:53:05 PM UTC+13, Gregory Ewing
> wrote:
>> Essentially you write the whole program in continuation-
>> passing style, with a state object being passed down an
>> infinite chain of function calls.
> 
> Procedural programming under another name...

Only in the sense that procedural programming is unstructured programming
under another name. What is a procedure call but a disguised GOSUB, and
what is GOSUB but a pair of GOTOs?




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Steve
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