[Python-ideas] Does jargon make learning more difficult?

[David Mertz]

On Wed, Aug 22, 2018, 12:40 PM Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:

> I believe that many people have a lot of trouble grasping the concept of
> functions as first-class values capable of being passed to other functions
> as data... It took me a long time to stop writing code like this:
>
>     map(lambda x: len(x), sequence)
>
> instead of simply map(len, sequence).
>

That long time is ongoing :-)

You recently wrote in another thread:

   widget.register(callback=lambda: spam.eggs())

Instead of the slightly faster and definitely more direct:

  widget.register(callback=spam.eggs())

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