On 5/8/05, Luis M. Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Regarding lambda, map and reduce, Guido Van Rossum has said several times > that these built-ins are amongst its "Python regrets". > > This is what he said in a recent interview: > > - If you could change some things that have been done in the > langage, what would it be ? > > Drop lambda, filter, map and reduce. Make range() behave like xrange(). Make > keys() and many other methods and built-ins return iterators rather than > lists.
With respect to IronPython, lambda, filter, map and reduce need to be implemented, for the same reasons lambda won't go away until python 3.0 if it ever does. While he Guido dislike lambda, the reasons are particularly about its implementation and current useage, and if a suitable anonymous function syntax is found he may accept it. _______________________________________________ users-ironpython.com mailing list users-ironpython.com@lists.ironpython.com http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com
