Sorry to quote all of this -- When I post a one line message to edu-sig, it gets rejected as spam. If this works, of course, this indicates an attack. I wonder how many other one-line questions I have sent to people have been quietly eaten?
Does anybody have any recommendations for an editor for children? In the days I was speaking, I used an editor called 'brief' but I don't think they are in business any more. Laura In a message of Mon, 06 Dec 2004 01:24:02 +0100, Gregor Lingl writes: >Laura Creighton schrieb: > >This examples shows beautifully that there are different concepts of >"function", which >also shows up in Python: some are called to return a result - this *shoul >d* >be independent of global circumstances (variables). (Like mathematical >functions >mentioned in Nicholas' posting.) >The others are functions that *do* something, for instance draw a line >(like forward >from the turtle graphics module). What forward(50) produces is by no mean >s >independent of the state of the machine. (And it returns None!) So these >are called >merely because of their side-effects. > >And (regrettably?) there are many functions which do both: produce >side-effects >and return values (in the real world (especially of students)). > >>And the climax was when I made them fix _each others_ code to make it pr >oduce >>the correct results. I was called 'mean' for that. :-) >> >> >> >By all means, what does 'mean' mean in this context? >Gregor > >>Laura >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Edu-sig mailing list >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
