Would Anonymous Functions Help in Learning Programming/Python?

[Matthew Woodcraft]

Cristian  <super.sgt.pepper at gmail.com> wrote:
> To me, the biggest setback for new programmers is the different
> syntax Python has for creating functions. Instead of the common (and
> easy to grasp) syntax of foo = bar Python has the def foo(): syntax.

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> in a program like Python there doesn't seem to be any other reason to
> have it.

One reason for the different syntax is that functions, unlike most
other objects, know their own names (which can be shown in tracebacks
and the like).

-M-