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You're speaking to the first part of my claim, but not the second, namely that JavaScript and CoffeeScript don't separate the idea of a function and a method, w

• masklinn 14y ago
  > JavaScript and CoffeeScript don't separate the idea of a function and a method Neither does Python, at definition time. All the difference is in the processing performed by the class constructor (`type`) when the class object is created. Before that, it's a bog-standard function. > which is what allows you to use first-class functional combinators as decorators. Which is exactly like Python, the original decorators[0][1] predate the syntactic extension by several versions, the original syntax for applying them was: def some_method(cls): pass some_method = classmethod(some_method) And you could use the exact same syntax to define non-method functions (though not this decorator, of course, as it doesn't make sense for functions) [0] http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html?highlight=classmethod#classmethod http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html?highlight=clas... [1] http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html?highlight=classmethod#staticmethod http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html?highlight=clas...
• goblin89 14y ago
  I only intended to comment on the first part. Decided against cutting the quote mid-sentence. (Which led to me learning something new from masklinn's comment. =))