Interesting talk on Python vs. Ruby and how he would like Python to have just a bit more syntactic flexibility.

[Ben Finney]

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo at geek-central.gen.new_zealand> writes:

> In message <hlhdsi$2pn$1 at theodyn.ncf.ca>, cjw wrote:
>
> > Aren't lambda forms better described as function?
>
> Is this a function?
>
>     lambda : None
>
> What about this?
>
>     lambda : sys.stdout.write("hi there!\n")

They are both lambda forms in Python. As a Python expression, they
evaluate to (they “return”) a function object.

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