map/filter/reduce/lambda opinions and background unscientificmini-survey

[Erik Max Francis]

Christopher Subich wrote:

> Interesting; could you post an example of this?  Whenever I try to think 
> of that, I come up with unwieldly syntax for the functional case.  In 
> purely functional code the results of map/filter/etc would probably be 
> directly used as arguments to other functions, which might make the 
> calls longer than I'd consider pretty.  This is especially true with 
> lots of lambda-ing to declare temporary expressions.

I personally think that map looks clearer than a list comprehension for 
a simple function call, e.g.

	map(str, sequence)

vs.

	[str(x) for x in sequence]

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