Mike Meyer wrote: > I'd say that removing functions is a bad thing. On the other hand, I'd > say moving them from builtins to the standard library when Python has > functionality that covers most of the use cases for them is a good > thing.
We all can pretty much guess that map, filter, and reduce will be reimplemented in a functional module by a third party within mere seconds of Python 3000 being released :-). So it's really just a question of whether it will be let back in to the standard library as a module (rather than builtins) or not. Even granting the reasons for removing them as builtins, I really can't understand the motivation for removing them entirely, not even as a standard library module. -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jose, CA, USA && 37 20 N 121 53 W && AIM erikmaxfrancis Golf is a good walk spoiled. -- Mark Twain -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list