Tom Anderson a écrit : > Comrades, > > During our current discussion of the fate of functional constructs in > python, someone brought up Guido's bull on the matter: > > http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=98196 > > He says he's going to dispose of map, filter, reduce and lambda. He's > going to give us product, any and all, though, which is nice of him. > > What really struck me, though, is the last line of the abstract: > > "I expect tons of disagreement in the feedback, all from > ex-Lisp-or-Scheme folks. :-)" > > I disagree strongly with Guido's proposals, and i am not an ex-Lisp, > -Scheme or -any-other-functional-language programmer; my only other real > language is Java. I wonder if i'm an outlier. > > So, if you're a pythonista who loves map and lambda, and disagrees with > Guido, what's your background? Functional or not? >
I discovered FP with David Mertz's papers about FP in Python. I had never read nor write a line of lisp, scheme, haskell, caml etc before. And I'd certainly start thinking of choosing another MYFL if anonymous functions where to disappear from Python. Note that I said "anonymous functions", not "lambda". Concerning map, filter, reduce etc, these functions can live in a separate module, and this wouldn't bother me. But anonymous functions are part of the language syntax, so there is no work-around. My 2 (euro) cents -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
