[snip too-long subject]

Mel Wilson mwilson at the-wire.com
Sat Mar 20 10:38:05 EST 2004


In article <7x7jxhuuex.fsf at ruckus.brouhaha.com>,
Paul Rubin <http://phr.cx@NOSPAM.invalid> wrote:
>Chris Gonnerman <chris.gonnerman at newcenturycomputers.net> writes:
>> > map, zip, sum, etc. are used in a large amount of production
>> > code. Moving them somewhere else would break every piece of code
>> > that uses them.  This is not going to happen soon, possibly ever.
>>
>> I'm a bit confused, anyway.  When did functional programming become
>> outdated?
>
>Preferred style these days is to use list comprehensions instead of
>map and zip.

zip?  Do you mean filter?

        Regards.        Mel.



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