Nicko van Someren wrote: > perhaps the sum() function could be made properly polymorphic > so as to remove one more class of use cases for reduce().
That's unlikely to happen. As I remember things, sum() was deliberately restricted to numbers so as not to present an attractive nuisance as an inefficient way to concatenate a list of strings. -- Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, +--------------------------------------+ University of Canterbury, | Carpe post meridiem! | Christchurch, New Zealand | (I'm not a morning person.) | [EMAIL PROTECTED] +--------------------------------------+ _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
