Post #2273811
2026-05-07 08:36 UTC
@jimgar@hachyderm.io @eliocamp@mastodon.social
...what are we doing here?
I feel silly if I'm telling someone in a university teaching position that functions and encapsulation exist.
That's a five line function. Not being able to find a better solution than a list comprehension doesn't show me a willingness to experiment I would expect.
It's not a serious argument.
It's fine to not like something. I don't care.
What irks me is implying scientific authority and then showing a lack of... openness for the thing.
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@jimgar@hachyderm.io 2026-05-07 11:01
@bmaxv@noc.social @eliocamp@mastodon.social Thanks for taking the time to write your example and explain it! Regarding the second part, I think you’re reading a bit much into Elio’s position here. They’re very capable of writing a function like the one you proposed. They’re saying in R there’s a very nice, simple, built-in solution for this extremely common requirement. In Python there isn’t, and that sucks. It’s a bit more friction than they’d like.