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Discussion on: Don’t pay the for-loop tax

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Lluís Josep Martínez

For something as simple as a sum of an array, 7 lines of code seem quite a lot.

In your example it's 7 lines vs 4 lines (a gain of 3 lines, impressive). In a real work example the function could easily be 50 lines of code vs 47 lines of the functional approach, being gain still 3.

You must handle the bounds of the iteration yourself

In JS yes, not in Python:

for number in array :
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