[Python-3000] Python 3000 Status Update (Long!)

[Bill Janssen]

> map (especially the new iterized version) is a frequently-used  
> builtin, while reduce is a rarely-used builtin that requires some  
> head-wrapping.  It makes sense to me to move it out of builtins.

I've never understood this kind of argument.  Because most people
don't program in Python, we should abandon the project as a whole?
For those who have "wrapped their head" around functional programming,
"reduce" is a very clear and easy-to-understand primitive.

But posting results gleaned from grepping over some random codebase
written by someone who may or may not have done that head-wrapping at
various points in time where some feature X may more may not have been
available, seems even less of an argument.  As I said, Guido's
argument that "filter" (in the guise of [x for x in y if f(x)]),
"any", and "all" are sufficient for almost every case seems like an
interesting one to me, and he may well be right, but while we find
out...

Bill