Comments on Version 2, Draft Pep for Deprecating Builtins

[David Eppstein]

In article <Xns91FF9515A57Eduncanrcpcouk at 127.0.0.1>,
 Duncan Booth <duncan at NOSPAMrcp.co.uk> wrote:

> All of these replacements are big winners if they remove a use of the 'l' 
> word. I don't think any of them lose in clarity even if there are no 'l's 
> around.

If you want to get rid of lambda, say you're getting rid of lambda.
But all of these functional idioms are useful with nested def:s, and 
probably more clear that way than with lambdas.

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David Eppstein       UC Irvine Dept. of Information & Computer Science
eppstein at ics.uci.edu http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/