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

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:46:52 +1300, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

> 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")

Of course they are; the first is a function that takes no arguments and 
returns None, and the second is a function that takes no arguments, 
returns None, and has a side-effect of writing "hi there\n" to stout. 

But I imagine you already know that, so I'm not really sure I understand 
the point of your (rhetorical?) question.


-- 
Steven