On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > On 5/11/2010 7:11 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >> In message<7xvdavd4bq....@ruckus.brouhaha.com>, Paul Rubin wrote: >> >>> Python is a pragmatic language from an imperative tradition ... >> >> I thought the opposite of “functional” was “procedural”, not “imperative”. >> The opposite to the latter is “declarative”. But (nearly) all procedural >> languages also have declarative constructs, not just imperative ones >> (certainly Python does). > > Python has only two: 'global' and now 'nonlocal'. > There are also two meta-declarations: the coding cookie (which would/will go > away in an entirely unicode world) and future imports (which are effectively > temporarily gone in 3.x until needed again). > > Newbies sometimes trip over def and class being imperative (executable) > statments rather than declarations.
Er, declarative programming has nothing to do with variable declarations. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declarative_programming Cheers, Chris -- http://blog.rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
