Fate of lambda, Functional Programming in Python...

[Michael Hudson]

Hans Nowak <hans at zephyrfalcon.org> writes:

> Anthony Baxter wrote:
> 
> > First point: lambda, map, filter and reduce won't go away before
> > Python 3.0, at the very least. And, to be honest, I suspect
> > map/filter/reduce are much more likely to die than lambda, as they
> > can nearly always be expressed more clearly as listcomps or
> > genexprs.
> 
> People often lump reduce in with the rest, but there's really no easy
> way to express a reduce with list comprehensions.  

You can replace it with a for loop though, and TBH I think the change
is usually an improvement.

Cheers,
mwh

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