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

[Erik Max Francis]

Alexander Schmolck wrote:

> It isn't a major problem, but I can remember that it did
> (infrequently) cause
> me bugs, so it's not all theoretical. Another minor cause of annoyance
> are
> things like this:
> 
>   SOME_GLOBAL_CONST = [(y**2, x**2) for (x,y) in
>      SOME_OTHER_GLOBAL_CONST]
>   del x, y # I could do without this

But that wouldn't be any different than the explicit for loop form:

	SOME_GLOBAL_CONST = []
	for x, y in SOME_OTHER_GLOBAL_CONST:
	    SOME_GLOBAL_CONST.append((y**2, x**2))
	del x, y # you could do without this

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