Peter Hansen wrote: <snip> > Sean, what gave you the impression this would change?
just inductive reasoning. i've been wrong before (like anyone who makes that claim), and i'm a former python enthusiast, so my judgement must be colored to some extent by bitterness. maybe they have solid reasons for scrapping the functional constructs. but to me it seems like they're eliminating them just because they offend the sensibilities of C-programmers. (i mean those stereotypical C-programmers, baffled by recursion and the like, who don't want to be reproached with the fact of their mathematical illiteracy.) if that's the case then list comprehensions and/or "first class functions" are likely to be the next target. even if they're not, it's pretty clear that python is leaving its multiparadigmatic origins behind. "do it our way," the pundits are effectively saying, "or get out". for my part, i'm getting out. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
