On 9/3/2011 12:25 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
William Gill wrote:
During some recent research, and re-familiarization with Python, I came
across documentation
Ours, or someone else's?
that suggests that programming using functions, and
programming using objects were somehow opposing techniques.
It seems to me that they are complimentary. It makes sense to create
objects and have some functions that take those objects as arguments.
Python is a mixed paradigm language, with object, functional and imperative
paradigms.
Are they suggesting that any function that takes an object as an
argument should always be a method of that object?
Or of the class of the object.
Yes.
http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/execution-in-kingdom-of-nouns.html
Since in Python, everything is an object, that would mean that every
function has to be a method, which would mean creating classes just to
have a class to attach functions to. How awful. (Oh, right, I believe I
just described Java.)
Am I missing something, or am I taking things too literally?
No, it is the OO purists who are missing something.
Yes, Python.
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