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From: Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 12:48:15 -0400
Subject: Re: from future import pass_function
To: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
> Simple way of making the iterator display its yielded result. I cannot
> imagine any circumstance in which you'd want to map "pass" over
> everything. But then, as Teresa said, I'm only one, and possibly I'm
> wrong!

True. But it might be nice to use pass both in lambdas and regular
functions, or to use pass as a variable name.

(Unfortunately, these two niceties are somewhat in conflict.)

-- Devin