Christopher Subich wrote: > Interesting; could you post an example of this? Whenever I try to think > of that, I come up with unwieldly syntax for the functional case. In > purely functional code the results of map/filter/etc would probably be > directly used as arguments to other functions, which might make the > calls longer than I'd consider pretty. This is especially true with > lots of lambda-ing to declare temporary expressions.
I personally think that map looks clearer than a list comprehension for a simple function call, e.g. map(str, sequence) vs. [str(x) for x in sequence] -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jose, CA, USA && 37 20 N 121 53 W && AIM erikmaxfrancis In Heaven all the interesting people are missing. -- Friedrich Nietzsche -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list