Re:Functional programming in Python
by chimeracoder on Friday May 11, 2012 @05:39PM
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I doubt you'll see that - at least in CPython. Guido's been very clear about how he feels about implementing functional paradigms in Python, so it will probably never support functional programming in the standard implementation - just a bit in syntax/interface.
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I honestly don't understand that. Data structures are just code ... isn't it much more work to change syntax and interfaces instead of adding some decent implementations of data structures to the library?
Re:Functional programming in Python
by chimeracoder on Saturday May 12, 2012 @05:27PM
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The syntax changes happened very much against Guido's will - he actively tried to remove lambda (and I believe map as well) for quite a while.
Anyone can write whatever Python libraries they want, but I doubt anything of the sort would be added to the standard library, and certainly nothing that would require an FP-aware interpreter to optimize in a useful way.