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

[Ron Adam]

Terry Reedy wrote:

> "George Sakkis" <gsakkis at rutgers.edu> wrote in message 
>>So, who would object the full-word versions for python 3K ?
>>def -> define
>>del -> delete
>>exec -> execute
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> These three I might prefer to keep.
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>>elif -> else if
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> This one I dislike and would prefer to write out.  I never liked it in 
> whatever else language I first encountered it and still don't.
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> Terry J. Reedy

Interesting, the exact opposite of what I was thinking.

I don't use del and exec that often, so the long versions are fine to 
me.  Define is ok for me too because it's usually done only once for 
each function or method so I'm not apt to have a lot of defines repeated 
in a short space like you would in C declarations.

elif...  I was thinking we should keep that one because it's used fairly 
often and having two keywords in sequence doesn't seem like it's the 
beat way to do it.

Although  it could be replaced with an 'andif' and 'orif' pair.  The 
'andif' would fall though like a C 'case', and the 'orif' would act just 
like the 'elif'.  Actually this is a completely differnt subject 
reguarding flow testing verses value testing.  Else and also would be 
the coorisponding end pair, but it seemed nobody really liked that idea 
when I suggested it a while back.  <shrug>

Cheers,
Ron