On 6/12/2011 12:38 PM, Andre Majorel wrote:
On 2011-06-10, Asen Bozhilov<asen.bozhi...@gmail.com> wrote:
Andre Majorel wrote:
Is there a way to keep the definitions of the high-level
functions at the top of the source ? I don't see a way to
declare a function in Python.
Languages with variable and function declarations usually use
hoisted environment.
Hoisted ? With a pulley and a cable ?
There are languages with definitions and in which
the compiler looks ahead. FORTRAN, for example.
Python doesn't work that way. Nor do C and the
languages derived from it, because the syntax
is context-dependent. (In C++, "A b;" is ambiguous
until after the declaration of A. In
Pascal-derived languages, you write "var b: A;",
which is parseable before you know what A is.
So declarations don't have to be in dependency order.)
None of this is relevant to Python, but that's
what "hoisted" means in this context..
John Nagle
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