PEP 312 - Making lambdas implicit worries me, surely it's just the name 'lambda' that is bad...

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Tue Mar 4 08:43:42 EST 2003


"Stephen Horne" <intentionally at blank.co.uk> wrote in message
news:pmj86v0ba8n6kguntk92hi7ka0s5oq3dn7 at 4ax.com...
> To me, the slight difference is that because I see list
comprehensions
> as functional I don't expect them to have side effects. Of course it

Thanks for the explanation of how a difference of background makes a
difference of gut feeling.  To me, they are just a somewhat weird and
redundant but increasingly comfortable new syntax.  This is one issue
on which I am more of a newbie with less to unlearn ;-).

TJR

> is a trivial issue, but it isn't *quite* as benign as the for loop
> (which is 'supposed to' have side effects).






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