Express What, not How.

[Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters]

"Rainer Deyke" <rainerd at eldwood.com> wrote previously:
|However, I think I can make an even stronger case for anonymous functions
|from my own code, which is littered with lambda expressions such as 'lambda:
|1', 'lambda: 0', and 'lambda: None'.  Giving those mini functions individual
|names would be an atrocity

Let's say I created a module lambdas.py (and generalized your functions):

    OneFunc = lambda *a,**kw: 1
    ZeroFunc = lambda *a,**kw: 0
    NoneFunc = lambda *a,**kw: None
    ...etc...

In my application, I might have:

    from lambdas import *
    ...
    widget(param1, param2, callback=isCond and myFunc or NoneFunc)

Where exactly does the atrocity arise?!  If anything, it's slightly more
readable than Deyke's little lambdas (and a little more concise too).

Yours, Lulu...

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