Using the Python Interpreter as a Reference

[Gregory Ewing]

Neil Cerutti wrote:

> I've always held with the "anti-functional style conspiracy"
> interpretation of Python's lambda expressions. They were added
> but grudgingingly, made weak on purpose to discourage their use.

Seems to me that Python's lambdas are about as powerful
as they can be given the statement/expression distinction.
No conspiracy is needed, just an understandable desire on
Guido's part not to do violence to the overall syntactic
style of the language.

-- 
Greg