Hello, On Sun, 24 May 2020 08:23:29 -0400 David Mertz <me...@gnosis.cx> wrote:
> Hi Steven, > > On Sun, May 24, 2020, 8:14 AM Steven D'Aprano > > > sorted(paths, key=lenāstr, reverse=True) > > *semi-wink* > > > > Do you have an evil twin with whom you share email. > > Yesterday you were arguing against functional programming style on the > grounds that filtering based on a predicate was too obscure > represented as 'filter(pred, ...))' > > Today you want full function composition. > > Fwiw, I like function composition. This example makes a good case for > it. Too bad that symbol isn't on most keyboards. I don't think > 'compose(len, str)' looks so terrible, but it's longer. Could find a use for that @ operator, finally. Note to myself: should implement that for my pycopy-dev dialect (https://github.com/pfalcon/pycopy). Currently it allows to override methods on (selected) builtin types, but not operators. Need to put that on TODO. -- Best regards, Paul mailto:pmis...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ 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/VGJ7DU2SACEQTWW55PG2KRYUYH62MKDY/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
