[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, 06 Sep 2005 12:19:21 +0200 > Torsten Bronger wrote: > > >>"talin at acm dot org" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>>Anyway, here's an example, then, of how 'def' could be used: >>> >>>add = def( a, b ): >>> return a + b >> >>I'm really not an expert in functional programming, so I wonder >>what's the difference between "add = def" (assumed that it worked) >>and "def add"? > > > In the former case one could write > > self.add[0] = def(a, b) > # etc.
If that's the issue, it might make more sense to extend def to take any lvalue. def self.add[0](a, b): return a + b -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list