[Twisted-Python] twisted and functional programming idioms

[Drew Smathers]

On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 9:26 PM, Rodney D Price <rodprice at raytheon.com> wrote:
>
> I'm just getting started with Twisted, and trying to find
> my way around.  I've done quite a bit of functional
> programming (Haskell), where recursion is a very
> common idiom.  I keep finding myself heading in that
> direction as I try to understand how to use Twisted.
> For example, if I wanted to write a loop in Haskell
> that woke up once a second and did something, I
> might write
>
> main = heartbeat
> heartbeat = do
>   sleep 1000
>   doSomething
>   heartbeat
>

Not related to the LoopingCall usage, but please heed Tristan's
warning on recursion: "Python doesn't handle lots of recursion very
well."  You likely already know this, but there is no last call
optimization (aka tail recursion) in Python.

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