Bob Gailer bgailer at alum.rpi.edu
Tue Nov 11 14:34:31 EST 2003

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I am glad to hear others rise to the "defense" of reduce(). I too am 
reluctant to see it leave the language, as I'd have to rewrite some of my 
code to accommodate the change.

The use of zip(seq[1:], [:-1]) to me is more obscure, and 
memory/cpu-expensive in terms of creating 3 new lists.

Bob Gailer
bgailer at alum.rpi.edu
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