Re: The limitation of the Photon Hypothesis

2004-12-22 Thread tanghaibao
I definitely have no rights to judge this article but I have a vague idea that this fine article goes to a wrong place. Except that the topic thing is symbolically related: Photon hYpoTHesis limitatiON. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Lambda going out of fashion

2004-12-22 Thread tanghaibao
This is NOT true. Functional programming, AFAIKC, is a cool thing, and in-fashion, increases productivity & readability, and an indispensable thing for a flexible scripting lang. The inline/lambda function is feature is shared by many lang. which I frequently use, MATLAB/R/Python/etc. Well, you can

Re: Lambda going out of fashion

2004-12-23 Thread tanghaibao
I have this book called TEXT PROCESSING IN PYTHON by David Mertz on hand, it is a good book and in the first chapter it is really a show room for higher-order functions which I may now cite to remind you of the FLEXIBILITY of this keyword. ''' combinatorial.py from operator import mul, add, truth

Re: Lambda going out of fashion

2004-12-23 Thread tanghaibao
Thanks. :-) Two remarks. o One-liner fits the eyes & brains of a portion of people. o Why don't you just say all python can be written in equivalent java, can I assert that Guido doesn't want to get mixed with those mainstream>? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list