Python slang

Marco Sulla mail.python.org at marco.sulla.e4ward.com
Sat Aug 6 15:17:01 EDT 2016


On 6 August 2016 at 20:03, Michael Selik <michael.selik at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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:
>> > "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?

Nope, I was thinking that "map()" should be a method of an iterable.
But this is another topic :)



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