On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 7:16 PM Jonathan Fine wrote:
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> On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 2:44 PM Steven D'Aprano wrote:
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> > You might say that your users are not so advanced, or that they're naive
> > enough not to even know they could do that, but that's a pretty unsafe
> > assumption as well as being
On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 9:36 PM Terry Reedy wrote:
> >> https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#map says
> >> "map(function, iterable, ...)
> >> Return an iterator [...]"
> >>
> >> The wording is intentional. The fact that map is a class and the
> >> iterator an instance of the cla
On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 10:32:31AM +0100, E. Madison Bray wrote:
> I think it goes without saying that
> map() is special in a way: It's one of the most basic extensions to
> function application and is a fundamental construct in functional
> programming and from a category-theortical perspective.
On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 08:13:12PM -0500, Paul Svensson wrote:
> Excellent proposal, followed by a flood of confused replies,
> which I will mostly disregard, since all miss the obvious.
When everyone around you is making technical responses which you think
are "confused", it is wise to consider
