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From: Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 06:00:53 -0400
Subject: Re: from future import pass_function
To: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 5:42 AM, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
>> You omit the one control flow statement that could actually be turned
>> into a function, raise. None of the rest could in Python (except
>> class), and one of the rest couldn't in any language (def).
>
> Well, if/while/for could be functions. So could with, probably. Now,
> def would be a little tricky...

In Haskell, sure.

-- Devin