On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 3:45 PM, David Townshend <aquavitae69@gmail.com> wrote:
A question: As I understand it, the function is never actually bound to its name, i.e. in your first example the name "report_destruction" doesn't exist after the statement. If this is the case, then there seems little point assigning a name at all other than for providing a description. In fact, assigning a name implies that it is reusable and that the name means something.
In a language without exception tracebacks or other forms of introspection, this would be of greater concern. However, since Python has both, the lack of meaningful names is a *problem* with lambdas, not a feature. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia