Sean McIlroy wrote: > Peter Hansen wrote: > <snip> > >>Sean, what gave you the impression this would change? > > just inductive reasoning. i've been wrong before (like anyone who makes > that claim), and i'm a former python enthusiast, so my judgement must > be colored to some extent by bitterness. maybe they have solid reasons > for scrapping the functional constructs. but to me it seems like > they're eliminating them just because they offend the sensibilities of > C-programmers.
This is incorrect. > (i mean those stereotypical C-programmers, baffled by > recursion and the like, who don't want to be reproached with the fact > of their mathematical illiteracy.) if that's the case then list > comprehensions and/or "first class functions" are likely to be the next > target. map and filter are being removed *because of* list comprehensions. Did you even read Guido's articles about this issue? Your understanding of why these changes are planned is incorrect; consequently your projection based on that understanding is not on firm footing. > even if they're not, it's pretty clear that python is leaving > its multiparadigmatic origins behind. "do it our way," the pundits are > effectively saying, "or get out". for my part, i'm getting out. If that's what you want to do, no one is going to stop you. But please do it quietly. -- Robert Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] "In the fields of hell where the grass grows high Are the graves of dreams allowed to die." -- Richard Harter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list