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]
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