On Jul 13, 1:39 pm, Anthony Kong <anthony.hw.k...@gmail.com> wrote:
> (My post did not appear in the mailing list, so this is my second try.
> Apology if it ends up posted twice)
>
> Hi, all,
>
> If you have read my previous posts to the group, you probably have some idea
> why I asked this question.
>
> I am giving a few presentations on python to my colleagues who are mainly
> java developers and starting to pick up python at work.
>
> <personal opinion>
> So I have picked this topic for one of my presentation. It is because
> functional programming technique is one of my favorite in my bag of python
> trick. It also takes me to the rabbit hole of the functional programming
> world, which is vastly more interesting than the conventional procedural/OO
> languages.
> </personal opinion>
>
> I think I will go through the following items:
>
> itertools module
> functools module
> concept of currying ('partial')
>
> I would therefore want to ask your input e.g.
>
> Is there any good example to illustrate the concept?
> What is the most important features you think I should cover?
> What will happen if you overdo it?
>
> Cheers
I'd think you'd want to at least mention the relatively new
'lru_cache' decorator, for memoizing the return value expensive
functions, providing they are deterministic / pure, etc.
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