On Sun, Feb 03, 2019 at 09:46:44PM -0800, Christopher Barker wrote: > I've lost track if who is advocating what, but:
Ironically, I started this sub-thread in response to your complaint that you didn't like having to explicitly write loops/maps. So I pointed out that in Julia, people can use (almost) ordinary infix syntax using operators and function calls and have it apply automatically to each item in arrays. It wasn't a concrete proposal, just food for thought. Unfortunately the thinking seems to have missed the point of the Julia syntax and run off with the idea of a wrapper class. [...] > I do not get the point of this at all -- we already have map" > > map(v, lambda s s.replace()"a,", "b") The order of arguments is the other way around. And you did say you didn't like map. Wouldn't you rather write: items.replace("a", "b") rather than map(lambda s: s.replace("a", "b"), items) or [s.replace("a", "b") for s in items] I know I would. Provided of course we could distinguish between operations which apply to a single string, and those which apply to a generic collection of strings. Beside, while a single map or comprehension is bearable, more complex operations are horrible to read when written that way, but trivially easy to read when written in standard infix arithmetic notation. See my earlier posts for examples. > > v.replace("a", "b") > > > > This is adding something - maybe just compactness, but I also think > readability. Indeed. In Julia that also offers opportunities for the compiler to optimize the code, bringing it to within 10% or so of a C loop. Maybe PyPy could get there as well, but CPython probably can't. > I've also lost track of whether anyone is proposing a "vector of strings' > as opposed to a vector of arbitrary objects. Not me. -- Steven _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/