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Mary Brennan
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@@ -266,10 +266,10 @@ logic (called pure functions) allow the following benefits:
- Pure functions are easier to test with unit-tests: There is less
need for complex context setup and data cleaning afterwards.
- Pure functions are easier to manipulate, decorate, and pass-around.
- Pure functions are easier to manipulate, decorate, and pass around.
In summary, pure functions, without any context or side-effects, are more
efficient building blocks than classes and objects for some architectures.
In summary, pure functions are more efficient building blocks than classes
and objects for some architectures because they have no context or side-effects.
Obviously, object-orientation is useful and even necessary in many cases, for
example when developing graphical desktop applications or games, where the
@@ -314,7 +314,7 @@ of the function logic.
Dynamic typing
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Python is said to be dynamically typed, which means that variables
Python is dynamically typed, which means that variables
do not have a fixed type. In fact, in Python, variables are very
different from what they are in many other languages, specifically
statically-typed languages. Variables are not a segment of the computer's