Luis M. González, citing Guido: > A. I'm not killing reduce() because I hate functional programming; I'm > killing it because almost all code using reduce() is less readable > than the same thing written out using a for loop and an accumulator > variable.
(So reduce is now in itertools). Try to pry folds from the hands of haskell programmers :-) I think they think that folds are more clear than explicit loops... Bye, bearophile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
