Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Joshua Cranmer Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Passing a Method Name to a Method Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 19:15:37 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 15 Message-ID: References: <81h4075t4gfjglji1n033rb20025ebho68@4ax.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 02:15:40 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="Q8HyEFb0j2lB0WC1MU3ArQ"; logging-data="14562"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/uw1tcFXxOigKzHT1LiYxt3HezSKYHKyI=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110616 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.11 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:DcOaNgpDrNAnrP+rQfXnNOFTM9Y= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:5620 On 6/23/2011 1:53 PM, Arved Sandstrom wrote: > Don't mind me - the last few years I've been questioning dogma. All of > it. :-) For what it's worth, I've spent the past few weeks starting to get really tricky with python. I think I hit the apex when I realized I was wanting a macro system in python, only shortly after writing functions that returned functions. I think "good OO design" got thrown out the window a while ago, although working in the same space as a bunch of programming language interns is certainly going to mutate your sense of good language design dogma. -- Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. -- Donald E. Knuth