"Yitzchak Gale"
Guido is clearly not rejecting functional influences on Python, he is supporting them. But he feels that these specific instances do not fit in.
I read some of his statements, and find that I disagree vehemently. But I wonder if partial evaluation is contributint to this? GvR thinks list comprehensions are better than map or filter, and wants nested functions instead of lambda. So where I like to write filter odd or (\xs -> (filter odd xs, filter even xs)) he would prefer let filter_odd xs = [ x | x <- xs, odd x ] in filter_odd and let map_even_odd xs = let filter_odd ys = [ y | y <- ys, odd y ] filter_even ys = [ y | y <- ys, even y ] in (filter odd xs, filter even xs) in map_even_odd I hope I'm not misrepresenting the Python way here, but it feels incredibly clunky. Maybe it looks better in Python? -k -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants