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Re: Help me pick an API design (OO vs functional)

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Date 2013-03-26 05:20 -0700
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Subject Re: Help me pick an API design (OO vs functional)
From Michael Herrmann <michael.herrmann@getautoma.com>

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On Tuesday, March 26, 2013 12:57:21 PM UTC+1, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 10:52 PM, Michael Herrmann
> > Doesn't the IPython do auto-completion for "global" functions?
> 
> Even if it does, it'll be polluted with every other global. Methods
> don't have that problem. On the flip side, since presumably this is
> (will be) a module, anyone who wants autocomplete of its top-level
> functions can simply "import module" instead of "from module import
> *", which will do the same namespacing.

True! I don't think "polluting" the global namespace is that much of an issue.

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Re: Help me pick an API design (OO vs functional) Jean-Michel Pichavant <jeanmichel@sequans.com> - 2013-03-26 11:07 +0100
  Re: Help me pick an API design (OO vs functional) Michael Herrmann <michael.herrmann@getautoma.com> - 2013-03-26 04:52 -0700
    Re: Help me pick an API design (OO vs functional) Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-03-26 22:57 +1100
      Re: Help me pick an API design (OO vs functional) Michael Herrmann <michael.herrmann@getautoma.com> - 2013-03-26 05:20 -0700
  Re: Help me pick an API design (OO vs functional) Michael Herrmann <michael.herrmann@getautoma.com> - 2013-03-26 04:52 -0700

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