On Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 05:48:35AM -0500, Paul Prescod wrote: > Greg Stein wrote: > > > > On Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 04:25:33AM -0500, Paul Prescod wrote: > > >... > > > If you want to confuse a newbie, I'll claim that the "map" version will > > > do it more than the list comp. version. > > > > Just because map() might confuse people doesn't mean it is now okay to > > introduce *more* confusion. > > But the map version is a very common convention! If we can make a common > convention more readable, that's a net win. Agreed, to a point. The counter-point is: "let's introduce syntax to make FOO more readable. great. now lets introduce syntax to make BAR more readable. sweet. how about BAZ?" There are a lot of common idioms in Python. How many do you want to add *syntax* for? Cheers, -g -- Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
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