Let's Talk About Lambda Functions!

Alex Martelli aleax at aleax.it
Fri Jul 26 17:21:12 EDT 2002


Britt A. Green wrote:

> I guess that begs the question: what's the advantage of functional-style
> programming? :)

Working with higher-order functions, closures, list comprehensions
and other approaches typical of functional programming often offers
clear, concise and powerful ways of expression.

But you don't need to pay the price of lambda's obscurity for that.


Alex




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