Comments on Version 2, Draft Pep for Deprecating Builtins

[David Eppstein]

In article <aaiu6e$pfr$1 at bob.news.rcn.net>,
 "Raymond Hettinger" <python at rcn.com> wrote:

> Reduce is easily (and more clearly) replaced
> by an equivalent for loop.

More clear to you, maybe.  I'd rather write programs that say what 
result I want, and let the interpreter figure out how to get that 
result; writing an explicit for-loop in place of a nice functional 
reduce is too much micro-management for my taste.

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David Eppstein       UC Irvine Dept. of Information & Computer Science
eppstein at ics.uci.edu http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/