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From: "B. Pym" <Nobody447095@here-nor-there.org>
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Subject: Re: A critic of Guido's blog on Python's lambda
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2025 21:53:32 -0000 (UTC)
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B. Pym wrote:

> Bill Atkins wrote:
> 
> > The cool thing about ITERATE is that it lets you express looping
> > concepts in a language designed explicitly for such a purpose, e.g.
> > 
> >   (iter (for x in '(1 3 3))
> >         (summing x))  => 7
> 
> Scheme
> 
> (fold + 0 '(1 3 5 7 9))
>   ===>
> 25



>   (iter (for x in '(1 -3 2))
>         (finding x maximizing (abs x))) => -3

Gauche Scheme

(use gauche.collection :only (find-max))
(find-max '(1 -3 2) :key abs)
 ===>
-3