Is there a way to change the closure of a python function?
Steven D'Aprano
steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info
Thu Sep 29 02:28:29 EDT 2016
On Thursday 29 September 2016 16:13, Gregory Ewing wrote:
> Philosophical question: Is a function that never
> returns actually a function?
Mathematically, all functions return, instantly. Or rather, mathematics occurs
in an abstract environment where there is no time. Everything happens
simultaneously. So even infinite sums or products can be calculated instantly
-- if they converge.
So, yes, even functions that never return are functions. You just need to
collapse all of infinite time into a single instant.
--
Steven
git gets easier once you get the basic idea that branches are homeomorphic
endofunctors mapping submanifolds of a Hilbert space.
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