[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outdated?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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