On Thursday, April 13, 2017 at 1:32:28 AM UTC-5, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Wed, 12 Apr 2017 14:38:52 +0100, Ben Bacarisse wrote: > > Steve D'Aprano writes: > >> On Wed, 12 Apr 2017 03:39 am, Paul Rubin wrote: > > [...] Indeed, and this is a very common phenomenon: > features which "ordinary" programmers imagine are "trendy" > and new end up having their roots in some functional > language dating back to the 1980s, or 70s, or in extreme > cases the 1950s and Lisp.
Be advised that functional programmers are a fanatical bunch, and saying something like that could be akin to blowing a "functional purist dogwhistle". If this thread becomes overrun with functional trolls, i'm blaming you. ;-) -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
