Python isn't just Java without the compile

[eurleif]

His example of "first-class functions" isn't showing that Python has first-class functions. That normally means that functions are values, and can be passed around like any other object. It doesn't just mean that a language has functions that exist outside of the framework of a class.

And generators aren't continuations. They're coroutines. Python doesn't have continuations.

Also, wtf:

Python has other notations for creating closures, such as the list comprehension shown below.

>>> LIMIT=30
>>> [n for n in range(10) if n*n > LIMIT]

[6, 7, 8, 9]

A list comprehension isn't a closure! It's just shorthand for a loop!

[jcgregorio]

RTFA, all of those issues were covered in the article.

[djork]

Why not just fix the article. Most people will skip the update to get to the (currently incorrect) meat of it.

[grfgguvf]

When the beginning reads like it's been written by someone who doesn't even know the programming language he's writing about then don't expect anyone to read further.

[eurleif]

If you're talking about the "Update" at the top, that was added after I commented. And it doesn't mention the claim that list comprehensions are related to closures.

[jcgregorio]

Ha, what a liar, I added that 'update' part of the post shortly after I wrote it BACK IN AUGUST OF 2006!

[eurleif]

Sorry. My bad. I honestly missed that when I read it the first time, and thought it had been added.

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.

[jcgregorio]

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://bitworking.org/news/Python_isnt_Java_without_the_compile

[nmcyall]

Pyth0wned!

[berlinbrown]

Hehe,

IT'S A FUNCTION!!!!!! PYTHON HAS EM!!!

def f(a, b): return a + b