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Gregory Ewing
greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sat Dec 30 18:22:14 EST 2017
Stefan Ram wrote:
> BASIC has
>
> DEF FN...
>
> which /can/ define actual subroutines, limited to expressions.
>
> Now, what does this limitation remind me of?
The equivalent limitation in Python is nowhere near as bad,
since if you outgrow what lambda can do you can always
use a def instead. BASIC didn't have that option (unless
you were using one of the more advanced dialects, such
as BBC BASIC, which had a PROC statement).
--
Greg
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