a = b = 1 just syntactic sugar?

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Terry,

I'm flattered you think my hack is  'clever' ;)

I am curious... don't you think that using the name that an anonymous 
function is assigned to within the anonymous function breaks the concept 
of an anonymous function?

-- Seth

Terry Reedy wrote:

>"Steven Taschuk" <staschuk at telusplanet.net> wrote in message
>news:mailman.1055177098.5381.python-list at python.org...
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>>    factorial = lambda x: x==0 and 1 or x*selfref.myself(x-1)
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>If the lambda is immediately name bound, the selfref contortion is not
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>>>>factorial = lambda x: x==0 and 1 or x*factorial(x-1)
>>>>factorial(6)
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>but it is a clever hack for when it is not.
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>Terry J. Reedy
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