Programming Forums - View Single Post - The Demise of lambda, map, filter and reduce

Arevos · Jan 27th, 2006, 4:31 PM

The functionality of filter and map is the same as list comprehensions, so I don't think there's much loss there. I've never found a use for reduce in any program I've devised, and lambda is rather un-pythonic.

This said, I wish Python had some syntactic sugar for:

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def anon(...):
    # code
function(anon)

Perhaps something like:

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keyword function:
   # code

Where 'keyword could be something like "do" or "use".

Jan 27th, 2006, 4:31 PM	#2
Arevos Programming Guru Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: England Posts: 1,499 Rep Power: 5	The functionality of filter and map is the same as list comprehensions, so I don't think there's much loss there. I've never found a use for reduce in any program I've devised, and lambda is rather un-pythonic. This said, I wish Python had some syntactic sugar for: (Toggle Plain Text) def anon(...): # code function(anon) def anon(...): # code function(anon) Perhaps something like: (Toggle Plain Text) keyword function: # code keyword function: # code Where 'keyword could be something like "do" or "use".