Josiah Carlson wrote:
I once asked "Any other use cases for one of the most powerful features of Ruby, in Python?" I have yet to hear any sort of reasonable response.
Why am I getting no response to my question? Either it is because I am being ignored, or no one has taken the time to translate one of these 'killer features' from Smalltalk or Ruby, or perhaps such translations show that there is a better way in Python already.
My feeling is that it's the latter. I don't know about Ruby, but in Smalltalk, block-passing is used so heavily because it's the main way of implementing control structures there. While-loops, for-loops, even if-then-else, are not built into the language, but are implemented by methods that take block parameters.
In Python, most of these are taken care of by built-in statements, or various uses of iterators and generators. There isn't all that much left that people want to do on a regular basis.
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