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Re: Function declarations ?

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Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> "Hoisting" in computing refers to the idea of "lifting" variables or code 
> outside of one block into another.

I'm not sure it's the right term for what's happening here,
though. Nothing is being lifted to a higher level -- the
functions remain at the same level they were written at.

> Here's another model: Pascal. Because Pascal does type checking at 
> compile time, it will reject the function ham() and raise a compiler 
> error,

It's more that Pascal is designed to make single-pass
compilation easy. It's possible to support out-of-order
declarations with compile-time type checking using two
passes; Pyrex does this, for example.

-- 
Greg

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        Re: Function declarations ? Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2011-06-14 14:03 +1200
      Re: Function declarations ? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-06-13 14:58 +0000
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