In article <mailman.1662.1276743037.32709.python-l...@python.org>, James Mills <prolo...@shortcircuit.net.au> wrote: >On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Aahz <a...@pythoncraft.com> wrote: >> >> And I am not particularly fond of map() and cordially loathe reduce(). >> Speaking as someone with more than twenty years of programming before >> encountering Python more than a decade ago. > >"Loathe" is a particularly STRONG world. Are you sure you meant that ?
Yes, I did mean to use it -- perhaps it is not entirely an accurate description of my emotional state, but I enjoy the shock effect in this circumstance. >What in particular do you _not_ enjoy about using map/reduce (and >possibly other functional features of the Python programing language) ? map() never felt particularly Pythonic, especially the way it works with None as the function combined with multiple arguments. I can't explain why I loathe reduce() -- it just doesn't fit my brain. -- Aahz (a...@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "If you don't know what your program is supposed to do, you'd better not start writing it." --Dijkstra -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
