On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 11:37 PM, Henry Olders <henry.old...@mcgill.ca> wrote: > On 2011-05-31, at 1:13 , Wolfgang Rohdewald wrote: >> >> what you really seem to want is that a function by default >> cannot have any side effects (you have a side effect if a >> function changes things outside of its local scope). But >> that would be a very different language than python > > You're partially right - what I want is a function that is free of side > effects back through the parameters passed in the function call. Side effects > via globals or print statements is fine by me.
So, you have no problem with *global* side effects, but side effects with a /more constrained/ scope bother you? That's kinda odd, IMO. Cheers, Chris -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
