On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 12:49:02 -0800 (PST), dpapathanasiou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... >> but what's wrong with you original code? > > I come from a functional programming school of thought, where you > avoid local variable declarations if at all possible.
I'm not sure that's universal. Using Standard ML at Uni, it was often useful to use "let name = expr in expr" (or whatever the syntax was) to simplify an expression. Directly borrowed from mathematics, I assume. 'name' is not a variable, of course; there are no variables in functional programming. Can't remember what it's called -- named expression, maybe? I think I use local names in Python about as much as I did in SML. /Jorgen -- // Jorgen Grahn <grahn@ Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu \X/ snipabacken.se> R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
