map/filter/reduce/lambda opinions and background unscientific mini-survey

Terry Hancock hancock at anansispaceworks.com
Thu Jul 7 16:47:44 EDT 2005


On Wednesday 06 July 2005 09:41 am, Steven Bethard wrote:
> Terry Hancock wrote:
> > And a syntax just occured to me -- what about this:
> > [<expression> for <argument list>]
> 
> If you haven't already, see:
> http://wiki.python.org/moin/AlternateLambdaSyntax
> for other similar proposals.

Yeah, it's basically "Robert Brewer: for (no-parens) syntax 
[3]" isn't it (except that his eliminates the [], which is 
probably saner).

But hey, it's surely a good thing (in the sense of being 
more obvious) that it occured to me independently, 
right? ;-)

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Terry Hancock ( hancock at anansispaceworks.com )
Anansi Spaceworks  http://www.anansispaceworks.com




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