Intermediate Pythonista: The Function

Posted by adamnemecek on Sunday January 18, 2015 @10:52AM
from the intermediatepythonista.com dept.

http://intermediatepythonista.com/the-function

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Re:Intermediate Pythonista: The Function by fpaboim on Sunday January 18, 2015 @06:19PM (#8909404)

Interesting! I rather liked the part on closures, neat little hack, I feel the hacky nature makes them produce rather unreadable code (or at least real funky). Lua's closures are really nicely implemented, makes me actually prefer them to classes since in Lua it seems to be the other way around: classes are readable alright but you end up writing a lot of boilerplate code or having to use a library to do OOP.

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Re:Intermediate Pythonista: The Function by mhb on Sunday January 18, 2015 @03:21PM (#8908702)

These functions that take other functions as argument are commonly referred to as higher order functions and these form the basis for functional programming.

Wikipedia, for one, disagrees about what functional programming is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_programming

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Re:Intermediate Pythonista: The Function by c4obi on Monday January 19, 2015 @07:23AM (#8911566)

Cheers for pointing out that.. Should have been 'are an important part of functional programming'

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