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Re:Pyret – A language exploring scripting and functional pro... by sdx23 on Thursday December 15, 2016 @01:08PM (#13186659)
In what world is:

  def square(n):
    return n * n
... easier for a beginner to understand than:

  square n = n * n
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Re:Pyret – A language exploring scripting and functional pro... by AstralStorm on Thursday December 15, 2016 @01:25PM (#13186816)
Is square a function or object/data structure result of operation?

Welcome to the Real World. Please make different entities look different.

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Re:Pyret – A language exploring scripting and functional pro... by szemet on Thursday December 15, 2016 @05:30PM (#13189212)
Usually when one starts to learn to program already have learned some math. So knows only this notation for funcions: square(x) = x*x

"Return" seems meaningless.

So that is the "real world" function declaration (if this phrase makes any sense for a math notation convention) for a nonprogrammer.

Is that what you mean? Because then I agree...

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