On Tuesday, May 12, 2015 at 10:43:44 AM UTC-5, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 1:34 AM, zipher <dreamingforw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Name one "significant and important" use case for shadowing built-in types.
> > Functions, I don't have a problem with, but types are more fundamental
> > than functions.
>
> Please tell me what, precisely, is the difference between a type and a
> function.
A type is something that settles matters for the machine. A function
calculates on the machine. You can have a type without a function, but you
generally can't have a function without types. If a distorted example like
function f(): {} has an implicit return of an int in ANSI C.
> Once you've settled that, please explain to me what the
> built-in name 'int' is in all versions of Python.
'int' is a type that also has a function synonymous with it. But they should
not be considered the same. They could, for example, be decoupled. So that
'int' was the type and 'integer' was the function.
Mark
> ChrisA
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