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

[Steven Bethard]

Ron Adam wrote:
> Yes, I think a different key word would help.  My current favorite 
> alternative is to put it in parentheses similar to list comprehensions 
> and use "let".
> 
> (let x,y return x+y)

If you haven't already, see:

http://wiki.python.org/moin/AlternateLambdaSyntax

for other similar proposals.

STeVe