On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 08:13:12PM -0500, Paul Svensson wrote:
> Excellent proposal, followed by a flood of confused replies,
> which I will mostly disregard, since all miss the obvious.
When everyone around you is making technical responses which you think
are "confused", it is wise to consider
On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 10:32:31AM +0100, E. Madison Bray wrote:
> I think it goes without saying that
> map() is special in a way: It's one of the most basic extensions to
> function application and is a fundamental construct in functional
> programming and from a category-theortical perspective.
On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 9:36 PM Terry Reedy wrote:
> >> https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#map says
> >> "map(function, iterable, ...)
> >> Return an iterator [...]"
> >>
> >> The wording is intentional. The fact that map is a class and the
> >> iterator an instance of the cla
On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 7:16 PM Jonathan Fine wrote:
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> On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 2:44 PM Steven D'Aprano wrote:
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> > You might say that your users are not so advanced, or that they're naive
> > enough not to even know they could do that, but that's a pretty unsafe
> > assumption as well as being
