From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...>
Date: 2005-03-20T19:37:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Paul Graham recommends Ruby

Michael Campbell <michael.campbell@gmail.com> writes:

> On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 02:41:54 +0900, Laurent Sansonetti
> <laurent.sansonetti@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 02:35:50 +0900, Navindra Umanee
>> <navindra@cs.mcgill.ca> wrote:
>> > Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > > Yeah, but Python 3000 won't have lisp stuff anymore, didn't you read
>> > > that?
>> >
>> > Can you expand on this?
>> >
>> 
>> http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=98196
>> 
>> But who cares? :-)
>
>
> From that article:
>
> "filter(P, S) is almost always written clearer as [x for x in S if P(x)]"

And S.find_all { |x| P(x) } is even more readable. :-)
(What happened to the S.find_all &:P idea, btw?)

> Wow. He and I clearly have different views of "clear".
Good for you. :-)

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