Question regarding a recent article on informit.com

[Jp Calderone]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 06:50:08PM -0000, Ben S wrote:
> An article called "Examining Python 2.3: New Additions" on
> www.informit.com had the following to say:
> 
> "Python now includes iterators, generators, list comprehensions, nested
> scopes, type unification-and complete Unicode compatibility. The older
> functional programming style constructs, such as map, filter, reduce,
> and lambda are deprecated, even if it's unlikely that they will
> disappear. "
> 
> Is this second sentence true, or is that just an opinion from someone
> who favours the imperative style to the functional style? What else
> could have been meant by this?

  Guido has always frowned on the functional elements of Python.  None of
the four is officially deprecated.  There was a discussion on python-dev
(last month, I believe?) about deprecating them.  IIRC, the conclusion
reached was that, at *most*, they might someday be reimplemented in Python,
so as to reduce the amount of C code that makes up the interpreter.  

  Jp

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