"Nick Coghlan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hell no. If I want to write a real function, I already have perfectly > good > syntax for that in the form of a def statement. I want to *increase* the > conceptual (and pedagogical) difference between deferred expressions and > real > functions, not reduce it.
Mathematically, a function is a function. Expressions and statements are two syntaxes for composing functions to create/define new functions. A few languages use just one or the other. Python intentionally uses both. But I think making an even bigger deal of surface syntax is exactly the wrong movement, especially pedagogically. Terry Jan Reedy _______________________________________________ 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
