Python slang

[Michael Selik]

On Sat, Aug 6, 2016, 10:10 AM Marco Sulla via Python-list <
python-list at python.org> wrote:

> On 6 August 2016 at 00:31, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 6, 2016 at 8:00 AM, Marco Sulla via Python-list
> > <python-list at python.org> wrote:
> >> * `dict` instead of `map`
> >
> > "map" has many other meanings (most notably the action wherein you
> > call a function on every member of a collection to produce another
> > collection).
>
> Well, the word `map` of the `map` function is a verb. IMO there would
> be no ambiguity.
>

Are you thinking of Lisp-2 where functions have a separate namespace from
everything else?