On 20/07/16 09:08, Michael Welle wrote: >> Don't be surprised, though, if the concept “replace the object >> referenced by ‘foo’ with a different object and discard the prior object >> at that reference“ is glossed to “change ‘foo’” in casual usage :-) > I'm a bit surprised to see that kind of sloppy use of language on a > Python list ;). But you are right, human language is imprecise.
Its not really sloppy. In English change means alter and the function referenced by foo is altered by a decorator. For example we could reasonably say that foo = lambda x: x+1 creates a function called foo And we can therefore also say that foo = lambda x: x+2 changes the function foo. Decorators change the function in a similar way. It depends on whether you are referring to the function name or the function object. So the use of change is not necessarily sloppy but it could be imprecise. :-) -- Alan G Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.alan-g.me.uk/ http://www.amazon.com/author/alan_gauld Follow my photo-blog on Flickr at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/alangauldphotos _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
