[Python-ideas] Proposal: A Reduce-Map Comprehension and a "last" builtin

[Brendan Barnwell]

On 2018-04-08 10:41, Kyle Lahnakoski wrote:
> For example before I read the docs on
> itertools.accumulate(list_of_length_N, func), here are the unknowns I see:


	It sounds like you're saying you don't like using functions because you 
have to read documentation.  That may be so, but I don't have much 
sympathy for that position.  One of the most useful features of 
functions is that they exist as defined chunks of code that can be 
explicitly documented.  Snippets of inline code are harder to document 
and harder to "address" in the sense of identifying precisely which 
chunk of code is being documented.

	If the documentation for accumulate doesn't give the information that 
people using it need to know, that's a documentation bug for sure, but 
it doesn't mean we should stop using functions.

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Brendan Barnwell
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