Hi all,
so Guido is talking about his reasoning behind dropping lambda,
reduce(), filter() and map() in the next generation of Python:
http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=98196
[Prime quote: "I think having the two choices side-by-side just
requires programmers to think about m
* Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-01-22 18:40]:
> You might argue that we should force people to think of it one
> way or the other.
I wouldn't, because if I did I'd should've been talking to Guido
rather than you in the first place. :-)
And because I'm talking to you, I'll wonder whether ma
Gah. Not a good combination do heavy editing and insufficient
proofreading make.
* A. Pagaltzis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-01-22 03:55]:
> Good point; however, this means
a
> different way to think of the vector ops than we had so far.
> Basically, we're moving from the realm o
* Piers Cawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-01-21 23:33]:
> And once you go to an image based IDE and have access to the
> bytecode of the code you're writing there's all *sorts* of
> interesting things you can do. And that's before one starts to
> imagine attaching the IDE/debugger to a running proce
* Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-01-21 20:35]:
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 03:21:01PM +0100, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
> > It seems to me that this is too big a semantic choice to make
> > merely by omission of a single (and quite dainty) character.
> > I'd rather e
* Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-01-21 01:44]:
> Note that if we do take this approach, we'll have to require the
> space after = in
>
> @list = «a b c d e»;
This shouldn't be a problem. The whitespace rule changes I
believe should be avoided (Abigail does have a point there) is if
whit
* Luke Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-01-14 19:03]:
> Let's not mention that that has way more overhead than a
> short-circuiting test, but I guess "the idea's the important
> thing".
How about a calculated goto? *grin*
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Regards,
Aristotle
"If you can't laugh at yourself, you don't take li
* Lars Balker Rasmussen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-01-05 20:42]:
> I'm confused, are you optimistic or pessimistic in that last
> sentence?
Sounds carefully optimistic to me. At least it certainly doesn't
sound pessimistic per se, no?
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Regards,
Aristotle
"If you can't laugh at yourself, you d
* The Perl 6 Summarizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-12-16 11:57]:
> bear in mind that the authors of the paper use the term
> 'trait' for what we're calling a 'role' (We already have
> traits you see).
>
> http://www.cse.ogi.edu/~black/publications/TR_CSE_02-012.pdf
> -- Traits p
* A. Pagaltzis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-11-21 13:16]:
> But that without nested for modifiers (will those work?) this
> isn't be applicable in the middle of a map map map map chain..
I shouldn't edit my stuff so heavily.. what a mess.
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Regards,
Aristotle
"If
* Smylers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-11-20 11:50]:
> This, however, is irritating:
>
> my @new = map { s:e/$pattern/$replacement/; $_ } @old;
>
> I forget the C<; $_> far more often than I like to admit and
> end up with an array of integers instead of modified strings.
> So I'd like a more eleg
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