[snip too-long subject]
Chris Gonnerman
chris.gonnerman at newcenturycomputers.net
Fri Mar 19 00:38:12 EST 2004
Josiah Carlson wrote:
>> - all builtin functions that do not add value to the language as
>> language should move into separate module (e.g. map, zip, sum etc...
>> vs callable, isinstance, builtin type-constructors) and not be so
>> over-emphasized.
>
> 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outdated?
map() is easily as important as iterators and generators.
-- Chris.
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