Ian Kelly schrieb:
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 1:32 PM, Diez B. Roggisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Because it is undefined what should happen in case of no function given at
all - and because there is no identity function in python pre-defined, it
could be considered sensible to make None the quivalent of that function.
It makes more sense to raise an error when a non-function is passed
where a function is expected. If we're going to have a special
behaviour for None, why not have special behaviours for True, False,
and 42 as well? The proper solution to the lack of a built-in packing
(not identity) function is to define a packing function, not to
special-case an arbitrary value to *mean* the packing function in
certain situations.
You are right with the packing-function, it's not identity of course.
However I don't see that this as an area that is really important
(especially since map is being replaced by list-comps most of the time).
And the OP's question was about map not being conforming to the
definition on wikipedia - which I don't think it's not. It is not
defined what map is to do with None (or NULL or nil or... ) as argument.
Diez
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