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While this is gorgeous, I can't help but feel it's a bit disingenuous to call anything "Pythonic" and "functional" at the same time given Guido's take on the w

by fny 10y ago

While this is gorgeous, I can't help but feel it's a bit disingenuous to call anything "Pythonic" and "functional" at the same time given Guido's take on the whole thing[0][1]... especially when you're actually extending the language to make it happen. ;) [0]: http://python-history.blogspot.com/2009/04/origins-of-pythons-functional-features.html http://python-history.blogspot.com/2009/04/origins-of-python... [1]: http://xahlee.info/perl-python/python_3000.html http://xahlee.info/perl-python/python_3000.html

coconutlang 10y ago
Thanks! And that's a very good point. The idea of "Pythonic" as a guiding principle, however, is just to try to make the new functional additions look as Python-y as possible. Case-in-point: Coconut uses the plain english keyword "match" and an indented block for pattern-matching instead of trying to introduce new symbols or syntax.