On 8/25/05, Ian Bicking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > More generally, I've been doing some language comparisons, and I don't > like literal but non-idiomatic translations of programming patterns.
True. (But that doesn't mean I think using generators for this example is great either.) > So I'm considering better ways to translate some of the same use cases. Remember that this particuar example was invented to show the superiority of Lisp; it has no practical value when taken literally. If you substitute a method call for the "acc += incr" operation, the Python translation using nested functions is very natural. For larger examples, I'd recommend defining a class as always. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
