[Discuss] Functional programming @ UVic (was 'C' string tokenizer for those who hate strtok)

[Adam Parkin]

Brian Quinlan wrote:
>>> I agree that Perl would be a poor choice (although, it is very 
>>> multi-paradigm: imperative, OO, and functional styles are all 
>>> represented).  The problem I have with Python is that it's too 
>>> different from other languages (no statement terminator, the use of 
>>> whitespace for blocking, etc).
> 
> There criticisms are basically the same.

Hmm?  I don't see that, as there's only one criticism in that statement: 
that Python is too different from other languages.

>> I believe that as of python 2.something you can use { and } to delimit
>> blocks.
> 
> Nope. This is not possible not will it ever be.

Hmm, that's odd, I thought it was.  Good to know.

> But you would almost certainly have to use the methods of built-in types 
> ...
> That makes it important to understand a little bit about objects.

Exactly.
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Adam Parkin
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