On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 11:03 AM, Alexander Shorin <kxepal@gmail.com> wrote:
...and, if so, why lambda's?(: Without backward compatibility point I
see that they are getting "unofficially" deprecated and their usage is
dishonored.


Here is one use-case where .. =  lambda .. cannot be replaced with def ..

op['add'] = lambda x,y: x+y
op['mul'] = lambda x, y: x*y
..