LAMBDA IS IT USELESS?

[Ville Vainio]

"EricIDLE" <grayson-wilson at home.com> writes:

> def mult(x,y):
>     return x * y
> f = reduce(mult,n)
> print f
> 
> Isnt that easier??
> 
> Or do I not get lambda?

Functional programming people like lambda. It looks like a "real"
function in a mathematical sense, you don't type "return", but just
map params to a value. Having side effects in lambda expressions kinda
waters this thing down, though...

You might want to look at 

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-prog.html

And corresponding l-prog2.html and l-prog3.html

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