On Wed, 11 Dec 2019 at 01:15, Tim Peters <tim.pet...@gmail.com> wrote: > It's fair enough, although rather than "wrong" I'd say more that it's > inappropriately applying design principles that work well in most of > Python's libraries to an area where they don't. The very fact that > half the itertools docs are devoted to "recipes" kinda suggests it > knows it's leaving its intended audience hanging ;-)
I'm with Tim on pretty much everything he's said in this thread. > I do like functional languages, and always have, so it seems to fall > on me here to advocate for what those weirdos value. In part, no, the > itertools namespace is not a precious resource that must be vigilantly > minimized ;-) I'm also fond of functional languages. Just because Tim argues so eloquently, doesn't mean he's the only one who feels like this :-) Not having first() won't ruin any of my code, but having it would definitely remove one of the "speed bumps" I occasionally hit when writing scripts. (The same is true of many of the itertools recipes, BTW). Paul _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/H4WE57DUZZFU72A7L6XHO5YU7KONLNFN/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
