Functional Programming and python

Antoon Pardon antoon.pardon at rece.vub.ac.be
Mon Sep 30 14:29:01 EDT 2013


Op 30-09-13 19:04, Franck Ditter schreef:

>
> Good approach of FP in Python, but two points make me crazy :
> 1. Tail recursion is not optimized. We are in 2013, why ? This is known technology (since 1960).
> And don't answer with "good programmers don't use recursion", this is bullshit.

Guido doesn't like it.

> 2. Lambda-expression body is limited to one expression. Why ?
> Why the hell those limitations ? In this aspect, Javascript has a cooler approach.

Guido prefers it that way.

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Antoon Pardon




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