On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 01:04:00 -0000, Jonathan Gardner
<jgard...@jonathangardner.net> wrote:
On Feb 17, 12:02 am, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <l...@geek-
central.gen.new_zealand> wrote:
In message <60b1abce-4381-46ab-91ed-
f2ab2154c...@g19g2000yqe.googlegroups.com>, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> Also, lambda's are expressions, not statements ...
Is such a distinction Pythonic, or not? For example, does Python
distinguish
between functions and procedures?
Not to the programmer, no. Callables are callable, no matter what they
are, and they are all called the same way.
(What the heck is a procedure, anyway? Is this different from a
subroutine, a method, or a block?)
In classic Pascal, a procedure was distinct from a function in that it had
no return value. The concept doesn't really apply in Python; there are no
procedures in that sense, since if a function terminates without supplying
an explicit return value it returns None.
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