Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Steve Holden wrote: > > >>Well I guess if people wanted to argue for keeping the functionals this >>should be on the list ... > > > who's arguing ? > Please note that word "if", but you are surely aware that there havebeen suggestions that Python's functional programming aspects aren't mainstream and should therefore be ditched.
> is this perhaps a little like the "now that we have lexical scoping, the > default > argument object binding trick is no longer needed" myth ? > Could be. Removing that feature would also be a mistake. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC/Ltd http://www.holdenweb.com Skype: holdenweb http://holdenweb.blogspot.com Recent Ramblings http://del.icio.us/steve.holden -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list