I have the opposite reaction to it, it seems insanely idiotic to have a associative array with ordered keys. It can only make sense to someone who doesn't know anything about fundamental data structures and a language that caters to people like that in spite of the performance penalty is just strange.
but hey, its Guido, I still can't fathom that he moved reduce into functools.
Putting aside the fact that this change was made to increase performance, I'd rather have a language that's useful, expressive, and semantically powerful by default, instead of one that is less powerful and harder to use but slightly faster.
but hey, its Guido, I still can't fathom that he moved reduce into functools.