On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 8:17 AM, John Nagle <na...@animats.com> wrote: > On 7/19/2010 9:56 AM, dhruvbird wrote: >> >> On Jul 19, 9:12 pm, Brian Victor<homeusen...@brianhv.org> wrote: >>> >>> dhruvbird wrote: > >>> Having offered this, I don't recall ever seeing reduce used in real >>> python code, and explicit iteration is almost always preferred. >> >> Yes, even I have noticed that reduce is a tad under-used function. > > Yes, I had a use case for it once, but it wasn't worth the trouble. > "map" is often useful, but "reduce", not so much. > > Python isn't really a functional language. There's no bias toward > functional solutions, lambdas aren't very general, and the performance > isn't any better. Nor is any concurrency provided by "map" or "reduce". > So there's no win in trying to develop cute one-liners.
Too bad about the lack of concurrency, would be many places where that would be nice. Geremy Condra -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
