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porker on Jan 5, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Grumpy: Go running Python

> His stubborn view on functional mechanisms

Reference, for a non-Python dev who hasn't kept up with it?

teaearlgraycold on Jan 5, 2017 [–]

Guido has said that he wishes Python didn't have lambdas.

Also, map and reduce were removed from the standard global namespace and into the functools module.

kevinmgranger on Jan 5, 2017 | [–]

Reduce was, map wasn't.

https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#map

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