Ideas for Python 3

Ville Vainio ville at spammers.com
Thu May 6 01:36:50 EDT 2004


>>>>> "David" == David MacQuigg <dmq at gain.com> writes:

    David> In my humble opinion, GvR should have ignored the experts
    David> who told him lambdas were great, and just applied some
    David> simple common sense to find a better solution.

Why don't we just let lambdas be? They got a bad rep because of the
lack of lexical closures (and hence the default variable hack), but
the issue is solved already. Lambdas work well enough for simple
currying/whatever tasks, and don't really hurt anyone.

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