Why functional Python matters

[David Eppstein]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 11:04:06PM -0000, Dave Benjamin wrote:
> > I think that list comprehensions bridge the gap somewhat between FP and OO
> > methods, and this is one thing I really like them for. For instance:
> > 
> >   [obj.method(x) for x in data]
> > 
> > looks nicer to me than:
> > 
> >   map(lambda x: obj.method(x), data)

Sure, but wouldn't it be even better to use
    map(obj.method, data)
?

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David Eppstein                      http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/
Univ. of California, Irvine, School of Information & Computer Science