[OE-core] [PATCH] utils.bbclass: skip empty paths when handling FILESEXTRAPATHS

[Chris Larson]

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 2:18 AM, Phil Blundell <philb at gnu.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-08-19 at 15:11 -0700, Chris Larson wrote:
>> But then, there's a tendency nowadays to avoid map/filter/etc,
>> so that's probably not best :)
>
> Oh, is there?  What's the objection to those constructs, out of
> interest?  I am quite fond of them myself.

Good question, I'm not sure what the reasoning is. I've read multiple
documents around discussing idiomatic python that seem to feel that
they should generally be dropped in favor of comprehensions and
generator expressions. But, using that for something like this just
looks rather silly in my opinion: [foo for foo in bar if foo].
*shrug*.

Personally, I'm quite a fan of the functional programming methodology,
but I do think using the functional style too much in python code
tends to result in code which is extremely dense, and therefore harder
to read, just due to how the language is, whether you compose
generator expressions and comprehensions or you use map/filter/etc.
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Christopher Larson
clarson at kergoth dot com
Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus
Maintainer - Tslib
Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics