king kikapu a écrit : > Hi, > > i am trying, to no avail yet, to take a C#'s overloaded functions > skeleton and rewrite it in Python by using closures. > I read somewhere on the net (http://dirtsimple.org/2004/12/python-is- > not-java.html) that in Python we can reduce code duplication for > overloaded functions by using closures.
Then you should re-read more carefully this article. While closures are effectively a great way to reduce code duplication, they are by no mean presented as a way to replace function overloading - or at least not directly[1]. The idea presented here is to use closures to write functions that will return "parameterized" functions, and (IMHE at least) this is mostly useful in frameworks, ORMs and like. [1] you may want to have a look at another work by the same author: http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/VisitorRevisited which introduces the RuleDispatch generic function package. HTH -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
