Macros

2001-05-06 Thread Alan Bawden
Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 19:31:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Jan-Willem Maessen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alan Bawden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A macro facility is like a pair of vise-grips (if you don't know what those are, see http://www.technogulf.com/ht-vise.htm). I found myself laughing

Functional programming in Python

2001-05-06 Thread Manuel M. T. Chakravarty
Two quite interesting articles about FP in Python are over at IBM developerWorks: http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-prog.html http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-prog2.html Two IMHO interesting things to note are the following: * In Part 1, at the start, there is