<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Has anyone thought about my proposal yet? I think because it allows chained function calls to be stored, which is probably something that is a common; if imagine people turning the same series of chained functions into a lambda of its own once it’s used more than once in a program.<div><br></div><div>Arguably, the lambda syntax is more readable and puts on less visual burden.<br><div><br><div id="AppleMailSignature" dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br>On Feb 8, 2019, at 3:35 PM, David Mertz <<a href="mailto:mertz@gnosis.cx">mertz@gnosis.cx</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 3:17 PM Christopher Barker <<a href="mailto:pythonchb@gmail.com">pythonchb@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">> vec_seq = Vector(seq)<br></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>> (vec_seq * 2).name.upper()</div><div>> # ... bunch more stuff</div><div>> seq = vec_seq.unwrap()</div><div><br></div><div>what type would .unwrap() return?</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The idea—and the current toy implementation/alpha—has .unwrap return whatever type went into the Vector creation. Might be a tuple, list, set, deque, or it might be an iterator. It might even be some custom collection that isn't in the standard library.</div><div><br></div><div>But you can also explicitly make a Vector into something else by using that constructor. Pretty much as I gave example before:</div><div><br></div><div> set(Vector(a_list)) # Get a set</div><div> Vector(a_list)).unwrap() # Get a list (without needing to know type to call .unwrap())</div><div> </div></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">Keeping medicines from the bloodstreams of the sick; food <br>from the bellies of the hungry; books from the hands of the <br>uneducated; technology from the underdeveloped; and putting <br>advocates of freedom in prisons. Intellectual property is<br>to the 21st century what the slave trade was to the 16th.<br></div></div>
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